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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiiWXjPp2KM&t=21s

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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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