Tadpole Galaxy

420 million light years away the Hubble Space Telescope recorded this disrupted spiral galaxy. Called the Tadpole or Arp 188, it consists of billions of solar systems and has a 280,000 light-year-long tail. One theory for the tail’s formation is that an intruder galaxy (seen upper left through the foreground spiral arms and about 300,000 light years beyond) crossed in front of the Tadpole from left to right, and then by gravitational influence was slung around behind it. This billion-year encounter drew out a tail three times the length of our entire Milky Way galaxy. APODs January 8, 2006 and May 15, 2004. This is an 8"x10½" image on page 221 in You and the Universe.

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