Hubble investigates Bullseye Galaxy

LEDA 1313424, 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. The rings are full of stars. 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. .

This relatively tiny galaxy traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond.

Galaxies do collide but it's extremely rare for a galaxy to dive straight through another.

Endlessly fascinating how tiny we are in the universe.