NGC922 - southern ring galaxy - new Hubble Image

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In the southern sky we are fortunate enough to have a true "drop through ring galaxy" that is much brighter than Zwicky's Cartwheel.

This is the galaxy NGC 922, which displays a partial ring that was created by a smaller galaxy passing through the middle of NGC 922

There is a new image of this galaxy at the European Hubble Space Telescope website:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1218


Here is the image, reproduced at low resolution:

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Another (Possible!) ring galaxy in the southern sky is PGC 12706 ( alias ESO 301-011) which is not far from N1316.

Here is the GALEX (far ultraviolet plus near ultraviolet) image of ESO 301-011:

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Here is the Digitized Sky Survey image of ESO 301-011 from wikisky:

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I do recall seeing this intriguing little galaxy more clearly in an image of NGC1316 taken by Martin Pugh.