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Galactic Tadpole
Featured on November 27, 2014
A colliding galaxy known as the Tadpole wiggles across space in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy was either hit or sideswiped by a smaller galaxy, disrupting the larger galaxy's disk and pulling out a "tail" of stars, gas, and dust that spans a quarter-million light-years. [NASA/H. Ford (JHU)/G. Illingworth (USCS/LO)/M. Clampin (STScI)/G. Hartig (STScI)/ACS Science Team/ESA]
