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The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a series of pictures of a small galaxy laden with newborn stars that is being ripped to pieces by a gang of bigger peers. The galaxy NGC 1427A, which is 62 million light years away, strayed too close to a group of large galaxies in the Fornax cluster. The galaxy is being pulled by the gang's gravity, plunging headlong into the Fornax group at 400 miles per second.
Hubble astronomers said that NGC 1427A will not "survive long as an identifiable galaxy. Within the next billion years, it will be completely disrupted, spilling its stars and remaining gas into intergalactic space."