Ring · Peculiar

Hoag's Object

One of the most perfect ring galaxies known — an outer ring of young hot blue stars surrounding a central nucleus of older yellow stars, with almost nothing in between. How it formed remains debated; a second, smaller Hoag-type galaxy is vi

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