Galaxy LEDA 1313424 (Advanced Camera for Surveys Image)
stsci_2025-006a February 4th, 2025
Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)
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 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.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-006
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://stsci.edu/copyright/
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- ID
- 2025-006a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.5
- Subject Name
- LEDA 1313424
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)
- Release Date
- 2025-02-04
- Lightyears
- 567,000,000
- Redshift
- 567,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-006
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 475, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 2.41322920437, 7.08043401879
- Reference Dimension
- 3843.00, 3607.00
- Reference Pixel
- 1970.11681936151, 1848.81345845994
- Scale
- -0.00001388999, 0.00001388999
- Rotation
- 29.61453934816
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://stsci.edu
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://stsci.edu/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p25006a-f-3843x3607.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2025-006/STSCI-H-p25006a-f-3843x3607.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2025-02-25T10:05:47-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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