Hubble’s new image of a strange ringed galaxy – | RCO News Agency

According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Space, this spiral galaxy named MCG+07-07-072 is located in the Barsawash cluster, 320 million light years from Earth. According to NASA’s statement, the mentioned galaxy has thin and loose arms that protrude from the end of its rod core and have a relatively unusual shape.

MCG+07-07-072 is known as a barred spiral galaxy due to its central bar-shaped structure made of stars. But in the official classification, it is considered a SBc(r) galaxy because its spiral arms come out of its rod-shaped core and wrap around half of the galaxy.

NASA officials say that the “ring galaxy” classification refers to strange galaxies with a circular ring of gas and stars, much like spiral arms, but completely separated from the galactic core or even without a core at all. Ring galaxies are formed when two or more galaxies collide.

The new Hubble image released on August 16 shows a number of stars with diffraction spikes. These stars are seen in the larger image because they are in the foreground of the photo and their distance from Earth is much less than MCG+07-07-072 to the terrestrial planet.