ID2299 artist's impression.jpg (IMAGE)

Durham University

ID2299 artist's impression.jpg

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This artist's impression of ID2299 shows the galaxy, the product of a galactic collision, and some of its gas being ejected by a "tidal tail" as a result of the merger. New observations made with ALMA, in which ESO is a partner, have captured the earliest stages of this ejection, before the gas reached the very large scales depicted in this artist's impression.

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ESO/M. Kornmesser

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