The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the jellyfish galaxy JO206which shows a colorful star-forming disc surrounded by a pale, luminous cloud of dust and will be the sixth and final installment in his jellyfish galaxies series.

JO206 is located over 700 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius.and the new image of the galaxy is the sixth and final installment in a series of jellyfish galaxy observations.

Jellyfish systems are named for their resemblance to their aquatic namesakes.

In the revealed image, JO206’s disk is followed by long tendrils of bright star formation that extend to the lower right of this image, just like jellyfish dragging tentacles behind them.

The tendrils of Medusa galaxies are formed by the interaction between the galaxies and the medium within the cluster, a thin superheated plasma that permeates galaxy clusters.

As galaxies move through galaxy clusters, they collide with the medium within the cluster, which pulls gas from the galaxies and pulls it into long star-forming tendrils.

The tentacles of jellyfish galaxies offer astronomers a unique opportunity to study star formation under extreme conditionsaway from the influence of the galaxy’s main disk.

Surprisingly, Hubble revealed that there are no noticeable differences between star formation in the discs of jellyfish galaxies and star formation in their tentacles, suggesting that the environment of newly formed stars has only a minor influence on their formation.