See a photo of a doomed galaxy falling into the heart of a star cluster

The Fornax cluster is located in the constellation of the same name and is a relatively close cluster

galaxies, in total 60 millionslight years from Earth. It can be seen in the night sky, where it covers an area 100 times larger than the full Moon. The Fornax cluster itself has 600 galaxies, making it the second largest within 100 million light years of the Milky Way. In first place is the Virgo galactic cluster.

Courtesy: CTIO NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA, ed. "High tech"

Two elliptical galaxies (NGC 1399 and NGC1404) dominate the center of the new image—they are visible as two large spots of diffuse light with bright nuclei. Such galaxies typically contain older stars than spiral galaxies. NGC 1399 and NGC 1404 are among the brightest objects in the Fornax cluster, which are moving closer together due to the force of gravity. This process "rips" gas away from NGC 1404, the lower elliptical galaxy in this image.

In the lower left corner of the image you can seeirregular galaxy NGC 1427A. This ragged patch of light is a small collection of stars, similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Like NGC 1404, NGC 1427A is moving towards the heart of the cluster at a speed of approximately 2.2 million km/h. Astronomers explain that this process will ultimately destroy the doomed galaxy.

The image was captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) as part of the Dark Energy Survey. 

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