The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"—a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy—shot ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s ...

The bullseye galaxy's official name is LEDA 1313424, and it's an eye-watering 567 million light-years away from Earth.

The Bullseye Galaxy is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, offering a stunning real-world confirmation of galactic ring formation theories. At 250,000 light-years across, ...

The Bullseye Galaxy spans approximately 250,000 light-years across, making it two and a half times the size of our Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.

The Bullseye Galaxy has confirmed that this process does indeed take place. Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Some 330 million years ago, a galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood scored a bullseye, shooting right through the heart of large neighboring galaxy. The rare collision restructured the bigger galaxy ...

The Bullseye galaxy, as it is colloquially called, also supports predictions from computational models, which suggest the rings expand outward from the point of collision.