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A Ring of Stars

Isn’t this beautiful?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The picture is from Astronomy Picture of the Day for 18/2/24, via the Hubble Telescope. It’s a ring galaxy, called Hoag’s Object after the man who discovered it.

Amazingly there is another ring galaxy in the background behind the circle of stars, at about seven o’clock in the main picture.

 

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