🌌 Galaxy
Cartwheel Galaxy
A galaxy with a ring like a wagon wheel, made by a crash.
- Distance
- 500 million light-years away
Did you know?
- About 400 million years ago a smaller galaxy smashed through it, sending out a ripple that is making new stars.
- Before the crash it was probably an ordinary spiral like the Milky Way.
Different kinds of lightA picture taken in ultraviolet light
More NASA photos of Cartwheel GalaxyStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of deep space
The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.