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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robby" data-source="post: 35903" data-attributes="member: 4">Life Is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy <img src="http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2014-14-a-small_web.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/14/">Get larger image formats</a> Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region of the universe. This is not the case for galaxies crammed together inside huge clusters. As they zip around within a cluster, gas can be pulled from their disks due to a process called ram pressure stripping. Galaxy ESO 137-001 is one example. The star-city looks like it is "leaking" as it plunges through the Norma galaxy cluster. (More at <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/14/">Hubble Site</a>)</blockquote>