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This incredible image, taken from a space telescope, shows a galaxy being ripped apart.
The Hubble Space Telescope took the picture of this galaxy trailing stars and dust, as
it moved through a cluster of galaxies known as the Norma Cluster, a process called ram
pressure stripping.
The picture was taken in 2009 of the Great Attractor, a region of space around 200 million
light years from Earth.
It takes scientists years to study the complex images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope,
which has been snapping pictures of space since it was launched in 1990.