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Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic images of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding at nearly 700,000 mph through the galaxy's core.

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English: Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic images of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding at nearly 700,000 mph through the galaxy's core.
Date 26 November 1996 (upload date)
Source Hubble Images Reveal Supersonic Comet-Like Objects in Heart of Galaxy
Author The Hubble images were taken by Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), and . The VLA radio telescope image was taken by Jim Higdon (Australia Telescope National Facility's Paul Wild Observatory. The VLA is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a National Science Foundation facility that is operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Cerro Tololo picture was taken by Victor Blanco. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation as part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories.
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Galaxies; Interacting Galaxies

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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