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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment. The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years.

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LABELDUDE
March 2, 2007, 5:01 p.m.
FANTASTIC! Enough amazing info here for half-dozen articles!
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Truzseeker
March 2, 2007, 5:58 p.m.
Yea, its interesting, but no one has considered electrical plasma properties associated with the cluster's gravitational field : )
This has been a ongoing study with the folks over at http://www.thunderbolts.info/
Also see http://www.spaceweather.com/ plenty of electrically charged particles being recorded.
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B1BLancer
March 2, 2007, 11:18 p.m.
Space...the final frontier.
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SitNlook
March 3, 2007, 2:23 a.m.
We live in a violent world,violent universe and galaxy,tells you why life is the way it is,its built in all over the place, you can't eliminate it.
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netchicke4
March 3, 2007, 8:02 a.m.
cool!
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IcCaRus
March 3, 2007, 9:46 a.m.
hubble pic screensaver here... just added this one, lol .... hubbles been worth every dime we've spent on it.