Boomerang-Shaped Galaxy Reveals Clues to Colossal Clusters

Astronomers have detected a strange, boomerang-shaped galaxy that reveals new details about the gas "filaments" connecting massive galaxy clusters. In this diagram, galaxies in a giant cluster are seen as dots. The hot gas filling the cluster and filament is shown in purple. The odd, bent galaxy is shown in the inset. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech [Full Story])

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