Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Galaxies That Pass Gas Together, Stay Together
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These two very different spiral galaxies are also very close together—only 7,000 light-years away—with a faint stream of neutral hydrogen gas between them. This is unusual with galaxies near each other, which are normally deformed with long tidal tails.
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In this elliptical galaxy, a supermassive black hole beats once every five to ten million years, emitting bursts of energetic particles and creating shock waves jetting across the Centaurus galaxy cluster.
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This image shows textures in Jupiter’s atmosphere, taken over the planet’s cloud tops, just 12,400 miles away from the planet.
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This image shows threads of gas wrapped around an extremely large, bright star, tens of times more massive than our sun.
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This satellite image shows Lake MacKay, a 110,000-square-mile salt lake in Australia. It's classified as an ephemeral lake, as it only appears after rainfall, if at all.
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This crater on Mars was once covered by lava from the volcanic region of Elysium, which has now solidified and cracked on its surface.
