Feb 4, 2025 · This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released on Feb. 4, 2025, shows the gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye. A far smaller blue dwarf galaxy went through the Bullseye’s center, leaving nine star-filled rings.

Feb 4, 2025 · 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 through its heart.

Feb 5, 2025 · Around 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...

Feb 4, 2025 · A Yale-led team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: a super-sized galaxy with nine concentric rings. Officially known as LEDA 1313424, the “Bullseye” galaxy got its rings about 50 million years ago after a much smaller galaxy collided with its midsection — like a cosmic dart landing dead center in a game of Knockout at the ...

Feb 7, 2025 · 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. The blue dwarf galaxy that dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings sits to the immediate center-left.

Feb 4, 2025 · 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. Hubble has confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth.

Feb 6, 2025 · Observations taken using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), which is optimized for visible blue wavelengths, revealed that this smaller galaxy is not only close to Bullseye, at a distance of just 130,000 light-years, but linked.

Feb 8, 2025 · NASA ’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary cosmic bullseye. The massive galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine distinct, star-filled rings — far more than astronomers have ever seen in a single galaxy. The cause? A much smaller blue dwarf galaxy that plunged straight through its center like an arrow hitting a target.

Feb 11, 2025 · While many galaxies visibly display two or three rings of stars, a galaxy called LEDA 1313424 — 567 million light-years distant in the constellation Pisces — appears to have nine, caused by a...

Feb 6, 2025 · The data also showed the small blue galaxy just to the Bullseye’s left is the one that dove through the heart of the galaxy some 50 million years ago. A thin gas trail still connects the two ...