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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCheck Out NASA's New Image of the Brilliant Bullseye Galaxy, the Aftermath of a Rare Cosmic CollisionAround 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of the Milky Way, called LEDA 1313424. Now, astronomers have revealed the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest stunning images have allowed scientists to solve the mystery of the Bullseye Galaxy’s ...
The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424, lies approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.
A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.
Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...
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ZME Science on MSNBullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine ringsThe research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...
Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.
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Live Science on MSN'Bull's-eye!' Hubble telescope spots record-shattering 9-ring galaxy — and the cosmic 'dart' that smashed through its centerScientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...
A view of LEDA 1313424, the Bullseye Galaxy, by Hubble. Image: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space ...
The Bullseye galaxy is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings. Fifty million years ago, two galaxies met up in space. One was tiny, the other large. The small galaxy ...
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IFLScience on MSNHow This Massive Galaxy Got To Wear Nine RingsG alaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series of concentric rings, nine to be exact. This is more than other known ...
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