The Bullseye galaxy: a ring galaxy with a resonant twist

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The Bullseye galaxy: a ring galaxy with a resonant twist

Across the Universe, galaxies come in four major types. At a level of 36x zoom, Euclid’s first mosaic contains the distant but abundant galaxy cluster Abell 3381, which features a line of bright galaxies similar to Markarian’s chain in the Virgo cluster. Spirals and ellipticals are the most common type of galaxy, with many others that are interacting forming transient, irregular, peculiar shapes. However, rarely galaxies will also appear with a…

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The LEDA 13133424 galaxy consists of 9 concentric rings that recall the waves created in a pond when a stone is thrown. This peculiar morphology was...

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Astronomers Discovered A Nine Ring Galaxy That's Over Two Times Larger Than The Milky Way

While reviewing a survey of the sky taken in 2019, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted LEDA 1313424. The galaxy is nicknamed Bullseye and is 2.5 times larger than our Milky Way. At first, the astronomers counted eight rings. Later, a faint ninth ring was confirmed using data from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. LEDA 1313424 contains a total of nine rings, which is the most that has been seen in any galaxy so far. It is beli…