According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Space, this spiral galaxy called NGC3312 is located in a cluster called Hydra I, 160 million light years away from Earth. The said cluster contains hundreds of galaxies, the largest of which is NGC3312. Using the VST telescope in Chile‘s Atacama Desert, European Southern Observatory researchers have obtained a close-up view of this spiral galaxy that appears to be emptying its contents into the universe around it.
The galaxy NGC3312 is in the front and center of the image and is surrounded by a multitude of stars and galaxies. A patch of interstellar material can be seen in the lower part of the galaxy, which shows that it has separated from the galaxy and is moving towards the center of the cluster.
Officials of the Southern European Observatory say about this: The mentioned event happens when a galaxy passes through a dense liquid material like hot gas suspended between galaxies in a cluster. The hot gas against the cooler gas outside the galactic shell creates a “pusher” force, pulling it out of the galaxy and leaking it into the universe. This cold gas is the raw material from which stars are formed, meaning that galaxies that lose their gas are at risk of star population depletion.
Over time, more gas is ejected from the galaxy, which can form long spirals of cometary gas. As a result, a galaxy like the one observed becomes a victim of galactic theft.
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