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Because the object’s name, LEDA 1313424, doesn’t roll off the tongue, his team nicknamed it the Bullseye. This Hubble image reveals why it’s an apt moniker: The galaxy boasts nine rings, six ...
Discover the Bullseye Galaxy with nine rings, a potential giant low surface brightness galaxy, through groundbreaking research findings.
Gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424: It is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an arrow, a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy shot through its heart. Stellar Sculptors: This new image showcases the ...
Galaxy LEDA 1313424: Nicknamed the Bullseye, it is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings.
Cosmic bullseye. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists at NASA captured the massive galaxy LEDA 1313424 surrounded by nine rings of stars — six more than any other known galaxy.
Nasa ’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic phenomenon—an enormous galaxy, LEDA 1313424, rippling with nine star-filled rings after being struck by a much smaller blue dwarf galaxy.
The massive galaxy LEDA 1313424 has been observed with an unprecedented nine star-filled rings, the result of a dramatic collision with a smaller blue dwarf galaxy.
Artist's concept showing the distribution of LEDA 1313424's rings. Credit: NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) These rings formed in much the same way as ripples in a pond.
The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424 and nicknamed the Bullseye Galaxy, lies approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.