Wonder of ScienceThe beautiful and mysterious galaxy known as Hoag's Object has a nucleus of older yellow stars surrounded by a ring of young blue stars separated by a gap spanning thousands of light-years.
Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
Jeff C@wonderofscience Through the space between the central cluster and the outer ring (at 12:00 position as the GIF starts) is another, distant, ring galaxy.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESwhich is kind of incredible, because ring galaxies are rare
the more distant one is SDSS J151713.93+213516.8
Michelle HughesIs that animation just a single image that's being scaled and rotated for artistic effect? Or is the animation composed of more than one image of the galaxy? I can't tell if there's any difference between the frames other than the rotation and scaling.
Maeve Lyn Wilcox 🇬🇧@wonderofscience My coffee mug left a similar ring on my desk this morning.
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TheBen@wonderofscience Always been fascinated by this. Just feels... Whuut?
Deborah Sampson@wonderofscience
Sort of a “beautiful Eye of Sauron”…
Quite miraculous!
As a child…my perception that #space was a colorless…
Dead, place…only stark beauty.
I feel, was perpetuated…By school & many other teachers.
Now I realize it’s power to emotionally…
Pull you in…to fascinate & spark imagination…
And to move folks…to ask big questions.
Which maybe the whole point of our existence?
MoliseHorizon
Brianna