The citizen science project GALAXY CRUISE, using vast cosmic images captured by the Subaru Telescope, regards ring galaxies ...

Look at the image above ... of that galaxy — but far behind it — is a galaxy whose spiral arms appear to stretch and wrap around the closer galaxy, forming a warped ring.

A Hubble Space Telescope view of the barred spiral galaxy MCG+ ... distorting the image of a background object into rings, arcs or multiple points of light. "Ring-shaped images, called Einstein ...

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The outer ring of the galaxy, which appeared smoother in images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, but lumpy in the Hubble visible light images, is revealed in infrared for the first time.

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 ...