The Cartwheel Galaxy

Online view in Aladin Lite of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a lenticular/ring galaxy 500 million light years away from Earth discovered in 1941 by iconic astronomer Fritz Zwicky. This is from optical imaging by the Digitised Sky Survey.

This asset has made use of the Aladin Sky Atlas developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France. Image released into the public domain by NASA.