See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...
Astronomers have discovered a unique collisional ring galaxy, nicknamed the "Bullseye," that features nine rings, the most observed in a collisional ring galaxy to date.
How does it form? In this composite view of the Cartwheel galaxy, data from NIRCam andMIRI hint at an answer. The galaxy at the upper left has passed through the disk of the Cartwheel galaxy, and ...