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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. The discovery was made by Imad ...

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 ...

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has captured LEDA 1313424, a galaxy with nine star-filled rings, the most ever detected, resulting from an impact with a smaller blue dwarf galaxy. This unique ...

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. Astronomers using Hubble identified eight ...

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 ...

I had to stop to investigate it." In reality, this striking pattern formed 50 million years ago, when a small blue dwarf galaxy (visible in the image to the center-left) ploughed through 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 ...

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 ...