“Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?” -Joe Frazier
We don't normally think of deep-sky objects -- seemingly fixed structures in the sky -- as fighting for their lives, but when you're a spiral galaxy caught in a gravitational storm, that's exactly what you're up against!
Image credit: Blackwater Skies 2013-14, via http://www.blackwaterskies.co.uk/2013/09/widefield-in-virgo-cluster-of-….
With some 2,000 other galaxies, densely clustered towards the center, what are you to do if you're a very large spiral headed through that region at breakneck speeds? In this case, it's moving through there are some 0.5% the speed of light!
Image credit: Robert Gendler, via sky-map.org at http://server3.sky-map.org/starview?object_type=2&object_id=6333&locale….
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