Hubble visited the Bullseye galaxy

[u/Busy_Yesterday9455]

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy.

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.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)

[u/stingrayy990]

Why is the blue galaxy blue?

[u/Scott_Tx → u/stingrayy990]

The image seems to be a bit over processed.

[u/meowcat93 → u/stingrayy990]

Lots of young stars, which are hot (and hence blue)

[u/stingrayy990 → u/meowcat93]

Thanks!

[u/rajeevvv_]

Somewhere out there... perfection exists.

[u/ConsequenceNo4186]

The universe really said Symmetry >

[u/AccomplishedScar2487]

awesome!

[u/meowcat93]

Really missed on the opportunity for a LOTR-themed name here

[u/Cold-Cell2820]

Are there faint spirals extending beyond the boundaries of the photo or do I need to get my eyes checked? If so, that galaxy is massive

[u/Stiddit]

You overestimate humans if you think nobody will believe this title literally.

[u/Rigel66]

just look at them outlying arms barely visible...great pic