Star systems like this with concentric rings of dust are not too uncommon, says Lau. “There are maybe 15 that are known,” he says. However, none has been seen in as much detail as this.

Galaxy LEDA 1313424 is a beauty. It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series of concentric rings, nine to be exact. This is more than other known ...

Astronomers have found a rare cosmic phenomenon: a giant galaxy featuring nine concentric rings, making it unique among known galaxies. The galaxy, officially named LEDA 1313424 and nicknamed the ...

The image, detailed by the European Space Agency and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows a pattern of 17 concentric rings made up of dust particles surrounding two stars known as Wolf-Rayet 140.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) The discovery of a galaxy sporting nine concentric rings of stars sheds light on how such ring galaxies form and evolve 1.

An image of WR140 from the James Webb Space Telescope shows concentric rings around a pair of massive stars. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech) ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: a super-sized galaxy with nine concentric rings. Officially known as LEDA 1313424, the “Bullseye” galaxy got its rings about 50 million ...

It is 2.5 times the size of the Milky Way and has something no other galaxy has: A series of concentric rings, nine to be exact. This is more than other known galaxies, which usually have just two ...