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The “Space Kraken”

The so-called “Space Kraken.”
The so-called “Space Kraken.” Image: NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley/Z. Levay

In this image, several galaxies are intermingling at z=1.4. The CEERS team dubbed this intergalactic combination the “Space Kraken,” for reasons that to this writer are uncertain but ominous.

The galactic trail and the Space Kraken, at bottom.
The galactic trail and the Space Kraken, at bottom. Image: : NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley/Z. Levay.

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