{"id":140275,"date":"2025-02-10T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=140275"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T02:10:49","slug":"hubble-helps-astronomers-find-colossal-nine-ring-galaxy-in-cosmic-bullseye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=140275","title":{"rendered":"Hubble helps astronomers find colossal nine-ring galaxy in cosmic \u2018bullseye\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">FILE VIDEO: Using data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble and Webb space telescopes, astronomers and artists modeled the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) in three dimensions, creating a movie that allows viewers to fly past and among the pillars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Scientists have discovered an impressive galaxy using NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/hubble-space-telescope-galaxy-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, which has six more rings than other previously known galaxies and an arrow-like feature straight through its center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Hubble captured a &#8220;cosmic bullseye&#8221; with galaxy LEDA 1313424, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>. After finding the first eight rings with Hubble, the science team confirmed a ninth ring using data from the W.M. Keck Observatory in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawaii<\/a>. Most other galaxies discovered have a maximum of two or three rings.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The team behind the findings published in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/journal\/2041-8205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a> believes there may have been a 10th ring, but it is too dim to see.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/webb-space-telescope-stellar-dust-stars-universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a0WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE SHINES LIGHT ON ANOTHER FASCINATING SECRET OF OUR UNIVERSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The artist&#8217;s concept below shows our home galaxy, the Milky Way, next to the newly discovered galaxy nicknamed &#8220;Bullseye.&#8221; LEDA 1313424, aka Bullseye, is almost two-and-a-half times larger than the Milky Way, at 250,000 light-years across.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/288\/162\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/576\/324\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/720\/405\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1440\/810\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/668\/376\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1336\/752\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/668\/376\/hubble_leda1313424_stsci-01jh3m1czceyvat467p5e9pvc5-scaled.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"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.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">NASA said the discovery was also a bullseye for science because of what it confirms about galaxy ring formation over time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Yale professor Pieter G. van Dokkum, a study co-author, said the rings appear to move outward nearly as models predict.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;That theory was developed for the day that someone saw so many rings,&#8221; van Dokkum said. &#8220;It is immensely gratifying to confirm this long-standing prediction with the Bullseye galaxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/asteroid-2024-yr4-impact-probability-rises-2032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ODDS INCREASE AGAIN FOR SMALL ASTEROID 2024 YR4 TO STRIKE EARTH IN 2032<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">If you look down at the galaxy, the rings appear closer to the center, and more spread out the farther away from the core.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/288\/162\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/576\/324\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/720\/405\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1440\/810\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/668\/376\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1336\/752\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/668\/376\/bullseye.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"EDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings \u2014 six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA\u2019s 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.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">EDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings \u2014 six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale))<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Scientists say the arrow-like feature straight through the gigantic galaxy was formed when a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the heart of Bullseye about 50 million years ago, creating more rings in its wake. NASA said it\u2019s common for galaxies to collide but &#8220;extremely rare&#8221; to see one shoot through the center of another.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Hubble\u2019s image was captured at just the right time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;There\u2019s a very narrow window after the impact when a galaxy like this would have so many rings,&#8221; van Dokkum said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Bullseye will help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/astronomy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">astronomers<\/a> improve models of how galaxies evolve over billions of years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/hubble-space-telescope-helps-astronomers-find-colossal-nine-ring-galaxy-cosmic-bullseye\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE VIDEO: Using data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble and Webb space telescopes, astronomers and artists modeled the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) in three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=140275\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}