The Cartwheel Galaxy
NASA releases image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy was first spotted on wide field images from the U.K. Schmidt telescope and then was studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA The Galaxy is lying about 500 million light-years away in constellation of Sculptor. The cartwheel shape of galaxy is due to violent galactic collision. The smaller galaxy passed through large di