What's going on? In reality, a neighboring galaxy to the right of NGC 2276 (NGC 2300, not seen here) is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of the ...

NGC 3256 is a starburst galaxy located some 122 million light ... The outflows from the southern nucleus extend out to a distance of about 2,300 light years, and have a deprojected maximum ...