Yale astronomers have announced the discovery of a galaxy with nine concentric rings—the most rings ever seen in a single galaxy. At more than twice the diameter of our Milky Way, it stretches ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings surround its central point. Technically known as LEDA 1313424, the galaxy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye Galaxy, which is about 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way.

The Bullseye galaxy, as it is colloquially called, also supports predictions from computational models, which suggest the rings expand outward from the point of collision.

The Bullseye galaxy has nine rings, more than any other known galaxy. These rings formed from a collision with a smaller galaxy. The collision created new stars, visible as blue and red rings.

The bullseye galaxy's official name is LEDA 1313424, and it's an eye-watering 567 million light-years away from Earth.

The Bullseye Galaxy spans approximately 250,000 light-years across, making it two and a half times the size of our Milky Way, which is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.

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 ...

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The Bullseye galaxy, as it is colloquially called, also supports predictions from computational models, which suggest the rings expand outward from the point of collision.