by The barred spiral galaxy MCG+07-07-072 has thin, loosely wound arms emerging from the ends of its barred core, creating a rather unusual ring shape.
A galaxy's outstretched arms form a nearly perfect circle around its central disk in a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The barred spiral galaxy, formally known as MCG+07-07-072, is located in the Perseus Cluster about 320 million light-years from Earth.
The galaxy has thin, loosely wound arms emerging from the ends of its barred core, creating a rather unusual shape, according to a statement from NASA.
Ring galaxies are thought to form when two or more galaxies collide.
It's also possible a galaxy's ring-shaped appearance is the result of a phenomena known as gravitational lensing, whereby a massive foreground object warps the space around it, distorting the image of a background object into rings, arcs or multiple points of light.
Source
A galaxy's outstretched arms form a nearly perfect circle around its central disk in a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The barred spiral galaxy, formally known as MCG+07-07-072, is located in the Perseus Cluster about 320 million light-years from Earth.
The galaxy has thin, loosely wound arms emerging from the ends of its barred core, creating a rather unusual shape, according to a statement from NASA.
Ring galaxies are thought to form when two or more galaxies collide.
It's also possible a galaxy's ring-shaped appearance is the result of a phenomena known as gravitational lensing, whereby a massive foreground object warps the space around it, distorting the image of a background object into rings, arcs or multiple points of light.
Source
