Hubble ‘Bullseye,’ Breaking a record 9 hits a galaxy

Hubble Space Telescope only gave a massive bull in space: Leda 1313424 or Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times in the size of the Milky Way.

Despite the size of the galaxy, there was no small feat that seized this image. Bullseye (Mehriban) 567 million light, 567 million light from the ground, makes it a pretty object to catch in detail. But Hubble is a veteran to visualize Galaxies and reveals more rings around the bullseye more than the last image previously known.

Bullseye now confirmed the presence of nine rings, eight of them are visible to hubble. Researchers have confirmed the presence of the ninth ring by studying the information from the WM Kek Observatory. This means that Bullseye has six rings than other recognized galaxies.

Although it is more compelling than the number of rings around the galaxy, it is way Bullseye calculated them. Researchers think that a small blue dwarf galaxy flew through the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, the rings produce a rocky ripples thrown into a pond.

“Hubble can see more rings than previous observations due to higher space resolution: This allows you to see separations between the rings involved in each other in a ring,” said Pieter G. Van Dokkum, a astronomer university and a study in Yale It is a co-author Astrophysical magazine letters Gizmodo in an email that describes the Galaxy.

Galactic Smashup caused gas, dust and stars in this way, which moves gas, dust and stars in this way and producing a unique, concentric galactic structure. The blue dwarf galaxy is not actually destroyed in this process, which is the direct visible blobey of Bullseye. It is also a strange twist in the liking of the blue, because the blue galaxy triggers new stars when the blue galaxy has occurred. Galaxies are now separated from each other about 130,000 light.

According to a Kek Observatory releaseThe research group had a tenth ring of tenth rims, but the far-faded and above image can be farther away from the widest ring.

“If we looked directly to the galaxy, the rings were twisted in the center and gradually moved to the center of the study, the author of the study, in NASA release.

So Bullseye is not a perfect set of concentric circles. But still a picture to see and this is a portal to the former galactic interactions and its closest neighbor.

More galactic collisions may appear with the launch of the Roman space telescope expected Be in space until May 2027. “Van Dokkum said with an incredible speed and efficiency.” But before we know what is there, the human eyes that often chose things that are new. “