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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through space

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Hubble Space Telescope image shows IC 3225 , 100 million light-years away, in the Virgo Cluster .

The galaxy looks like it's been launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming behind it.

It's one of more than 1,300 galaxies that make up the cluster, which contains more than 100 other groups of galaxies.