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Robert Lea

Galaxy group blasts out record-breaking tail of hot gas after gobbling up neighbor (video)

a purple cloud of gas in space

A monstrously large cluster of galaxies is devouring a nearby smaller galactic grouping, causing it to blast out a record-breaking tail of hot gas from its rear. At 1.5 million light-years-long, the tail is the largest tendril of gas ever seen emerging from a galactic group.

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