Located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, the galaxy looks like a wagon wheel. The galaxys nucleus is the bright object in the center of the image; the spoke-like structures are wisps of material connecting the nucleus to the outer ring of young stars. The galaxys unusual configuration was created by a nearly head-on collision with a smaller galaxy about 200 million years ago. spacetelescope.org/images/opo9636a1/
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