Hubble image / Todays 'APOD' - Hoag's object PGC 54599

[+Bino-viewer]

Anyone follow Nasa's 'Astronomy picture of the day" ?

If you don't i thought i'd share todays image with you.

 

What an amazing object, from the Amazing Hubble Space Telescope !

 

It's known as Hoag's object or Hoag's galazy.

Its very faint at Magnitude 16 and is located in the constellation of Serpens, and is a mere 600 million light years away.

It doesn't have NGC classification and is listed as PGC (Principle galaxy catalogue) 54599

 

If only i could see something like that from my own telescope ?!! 😀🔭

 

 

Edited November 27, 2019 by Bino-viewer

[Bottletopburly]

The universe never fails to Amaze , surreal 

[tuckstar]

So it's a lenticular galaxy with a star forming ring. Possible from interaction with another galaxy. Love it.

[+RonC]

Great image, thanks for sharing!!

[+Bino-viewer]

I like the fact that this type of galaxy is very unusual, with only a handful of known others.

Yet there is another one right 'inside' this one in the distance at the 7 o'clock position on the inside of the ring.

 

All the other galaxies to the right of the main one make it even more mind boggling when you consider the scales and distances involved.