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SCIENCEJun 1 · 11:38 UTCSCIENCE DAILY

Hubble captures M88 on a perilous journey that could change it forever

Messier 88, a spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, is moving through the cluster, leading to the potential loss of gas necessary for star formation. It has a supermassive black hole and spiral arms with young star clusters and dust clouds. The process over the next few hundred million years will reshape the galaxy.

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