NASA plans to study this galactic ‘jellyfish’ with its new James Webb Space Telescope

[Mike Wehner]

Galaxies come in many different shapes and sizes, but you'd be hard pressed to find one more interesting than ESO 137-001. What the galaxy lacks in a flashy name it more than makes up for with an eye-catching appearance, looking like some kind of massive jellyfish floating through space.

A blurry spiral trailed by long strands of gas and stars, the galaxy is a great candidate for further study, and NASA plans to do just that. In a new blog post, NASA reveals that it plans to use the James Webb Space Telescope to study the galaxy and the mechanics that drive it.

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