The citizen science project GALAXY CRUISE, using vast cosmic images captured by the Subaru Telescope, regards ring galaxies as interacting. Ring galaxies are rare and difficult to find.

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

This makes it easier to see the four images of the faraway galaxy. The faint orange light surrounding the bright ring is the lensing galaxy. Having an Einstein ring so close to Earth will let us ...

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope. (photo credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre ...

This can be seen in the new Hubble image, which captures a bright ring around the galaxy’s nucleus. Another possible explanation for the rapid star birth is its proximity to other galaxies.