A blue dwarf galaxy pitched through the bullseye's galactic neighborhood 50 million years ago, leaving behind nine glittering rings. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...
The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...
The smaller galaxy is known as a blue dwarf and can be seen to the center left of the Bullseye. Hubble launched in 1990 and has a long history of discoveries. Some recent highlights include a “l ...
Even more compelling than the sheer number of rings around the galaxy, though, is the way the Bullseye accrued them. Researchers believe that a tiny blue dwarf galaxy flew through the bullseye ...
A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...
Its real name is Gargantuan Galaxy Leda 1313424. The galaxy has star-filled rings from a blue dwarf galaxy that went through it. Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists now believe “The ...
Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van ...