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Cartwheel Galaxy

Ring galaxy

From the Sun

500 million light-years

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Picture: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

What it is

A smaller galaxy punched through it, sending a ring of new stars rippling outward like a stone dropped in a pond.

The picture hangs at that distance facing Earth, as large as it is on the sky; how deep the object is cannot be seen, so it is flat.

The picture

Taken by
James Webb Space Telescope
Picture spans
about 340,000 ly
From the Sun
500 million light-years
RA / Dec
9.42° / -33.71°
Credit
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Cartwheel Galaxy

The Cartwheel Galaxy (catalogue ESO 350-40 and PGC 2248) is a lenticular ring galaxy around 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It has a D25 isophotal diameter of 57.69 kiloparsecs (188,200 light-years), and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 billion solar masses; its outer ring has a circular velocity of 217 km/s.

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