The story for kids
This is Hoag's Object. Around a ball of yellow stars, there's a perfect ring of blue stars. Scientists still don't know how it was made!
Facts
- A beautiful ring of blue stars surrounds a ball of yellow stars.
- Scientists still don't fully know how it formed.
- Through the ring, by chance, you can see another faraway galaxy just like it.
Numbers
- Type
- Ring
- Distance
- ~600 million light-years
- Diameter
- ~120,000 light-years