NGC 7469 and IC 5283
Date: 24 April 2008
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 7469, IC 5283, Arp 298, Mrk 1514
Copyright: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
This is a stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the barred spiral Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 (Arp 298, Mrk 1514), a luminous infrared source with a powerful starburst deeply embedded into its circumnuclear region, and its smaller companion IC 5283.
This system is located about 200 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus, the Winged Horse.
This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
