Jellyfish galaxy

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A jellyfish galaxy is a type of galaxy found in galaxy clusters. They take the appearance of jellyfish with a distinctive tail of gas often with regions of starbursts along it. They are formed when a galaxy located in a galaxy cluster with a dense environment travels through it.

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