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Diagram of Rings in the Bullseye (Artist’s Concept)

An illustration of the Bullseye Galaxy, cataloged LEDA 1313424, seen face-on. It contains nine rings. Overtop each ring is a dotted or opaque circle to indicate where each is.

This illustration shows the massive galaxy nicknamed the Bullseye face-on. Dotted circles indicate where each of its rings are, which formed like ripples in a pond after a blue dwarf galaxy (not shown) shot through its core about 50 million years ago. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope helped researchers carefully pinpoint the location of most of its rings, many of which are piled up at the center. Data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii helped the team confirm another ring.

  • Release Date
    February 4, 2025
  • Science Release
    Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy with Nine Rings
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    Artwork: NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

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A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its immediate left. Both are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes and sizes, along with a few foreground stars.

Galaxy LEDA 1313424 (Advanced Camera for Surveys Image)

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...

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Milky Way Compared to Galaxy LEDA 1313424 (Artist’s Concept)

This illustration compares the size of our own Milky Way galaxy to gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424, nicknamed the Bullseye. The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, and the Bullseye is almost two-and-a-half times larger, at 250,000 light-years across.

A graphic labeled “LEDA 1313424, HST ACS/WFC.” At the center is a large galaxy with a significantly smaller galaxy to its center-left on the black background of space.

Galaxy LEDA 1313424 (Compass Image)

This image of collisional ring galaxy LEDA 1313424, nicknamed the Bullseye, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The image shows a scale bar, compass arrows, and color key for reference. The scale bar is labeled in light-years along the...

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Last Updated
Mar 18, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

Artwork Credit

NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

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