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Astronomy Picture of the Day - LEDA 1313424: The Bullseye Galaxy
NASA ^ | 7 Feb, 2025 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)

Posted on 02/07/2025 5:25:19 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: The giant galaxy cataloged as LEDA 1313424 is about two and a half times the size of our own Milky Way. Its remarkable appearance in this recently released Hubble Space Telescope image strongly suggests its nickname "The Bullseye Galaxy". Known as a collisional ring galaxy it has nine rings confirmed by telescopic observations, rippling from its center like waves from a pebble dropped into a pond. Of course, the pebble dropped into the Bullseye galaxy was a galaxy itself. Telescopic observations identify the blue dwarf galaxy at center-left as the likely collider, passing through the giant galaxy's center and forming concentric rings in the wake of their gravitational interaction. The Bullseye Galaxy lies some 567 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. At that distance, this stunning Hubble image would span about 530,000 light-years.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 02/07/2025 5:25:19 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/07/2025 5:25:39 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 02/07/2025 5:26:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s Cthulhu peeking out of the interdimensional void where he dreams.


4 posted on 02/07/2025 6:00:43 PM PST by AFB-XYZ ( )
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Nice!


5 posted on 02/07/2025 6:07:09 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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Had to look up Cthulhu...

Interesting.


6 posted on 02/08/2025 5:20:00 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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