AM 0644

AM 0644 (also called AM 0644-741, PGC 19481, or the Lindsay-Shapely Ring) is a galaxy 300 million light-years from Earth in the Volans constellation, which it's remarkable because of its odd shape, It's appearance is an oval ring dominated by bright, massive, young blue stars with a yellowish nucleus on the side, It is theorized the ring formed due to a major collision from a foreign galaxy, It sparked a gravitational disturbance that pushed dust in the galaxy to condense and become stars, which in turn led it to spread away from the galaxy and produce a ring.
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