Stripping ESO 137-001 . ... NASA , ESA , CXC Explanation: Spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 hurtles through massive galaxy cluster Abell 3627 some 220 million light years away. ... As the spiral speeds along at nearly 7 million kilometers per hour, its gas and dust are stripped away when ram pressure with the cluster's own hot, tenuous intracluster medium overcomes the galaxy's gravity. ... A yellowish elliptical galaxy , lacking in star forming dust and gas, is just to the right of ESO 137-001 in the frame. ...