Located 567 million light-years away, LEDA 1313424 is the first known galaxy to feature nine concentric rings of stars and gas. This unique formation appears to have resulted from a rare head-on ...

Big Bend National Park Cosmic bullseye. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists at NASA captured the massive galaxy LEDA 1313424 surrounded by nine rings of stars — six more than any other ...

LEDA 1313424: In the image, the nine rings of the Bullseye galaxy are visible that were created when a smaller galaxy passed through its center 50 million years ago. AM 0417-391: The image ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of LEDA 1313424, the Bullseye galaxy, which measures 2.5x larger than the Milky Way. LEDA 1313424 has more rings than any other known galaxy in ...

The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424 but nicknamed “Bullseye,” formed its rings about 50 million years ago when a smaller galaxy crashed into its center. This impact sent waves of gas ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...