Galaxy
Cartwheel Galaxy
Ring galaxy
Ring galaxy
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The Cartwheel Galaxy (catalogue ESO 350-40 and PGC 2248) is a lenticular ring galaxy around 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It has a D25 isophotal diameter of 57.69 kiloparsecs (188,200 light-years), and a mass of about 2.9–4.8 billion solar masses; its outer ring has a circular velocity of 217 km/s.
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Distance
~500 million light-years
