Hoag's Object | The Mystery of Ring Galaxies

What the fork is going on in this galaxy?! It looks amazing but we still don't have an accepted theory for explaining how these rings form. Let me take you through a couple of our best ideas.

And whoops, had a brain typo halfway through this video. Hoag's object dimensions should be 17 thousand light years, 75 thousand light years and 125 thousand light years.

This video was inspired by a comment on this video:    • M58 - The Ring Bearer Galaxy - Deep S...  

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👩🏽‍💻 Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
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