3 days ago · 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. Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in any galaxy, and confirmed a ninth using ...

3 days ago · Hubble and Keck’s follow-up observations also helped the researchers prove which galaxy plunged through the center of the Bullseye — a blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond.

1 day ago · Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. 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 kilometers (about 80,000 miles), but linked.

1 day ago · A diagram of the Bullseye Galaxy's nine concentric rings (Image credit: NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) ... Hubble's successor, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is scheduled to launch ...

2 days ago · “It is immensely gratifying to confirm this long-standing prediction with the Bullseye galaxy,” van Dokkum says in the statement. Hubble allowed scientists to identify the precise positioning ...

2 days ago · “It is immensely gratifying to confirm this long-standing prediction with the Bullseye galaxy.” Hubble’s image provides an angled view of the rings, making them appear unevenly spaced. If seen directly from above, they would form nearly perfect circles – with the innermost rings packed closely together and the outermost ones more widely ...

3 days ago · High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. 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.

3 days ago · 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 ...

A Yale-led research group has discovered “Bullseye,” a galaxy with nine rings that may help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution and dark matter. ... He and his colleagues did more research — identifying eight rings using data from NASA ’s Hubble Telescope and a ninth ring using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager at the Keck ...

3 days ago · NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...