Celestial Object Z 229-15: Everything, in one place, all at once | Hubble

Celestial Object Z 229-15: Everything, in one place, all at once | Hubble

This luminous celestial object Z 229-15 is imaged here in beautiful detail by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. It lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Z 229-15 is one of those interesting celestial objects that, should you choose to research it, you will find defined as several different things. sometimes as an active galactic nucleus; sometimes as a quasar; and sometimes as a Seyfert galaxy.

Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, A. Barth, R. Mushotzky 

Release Date: March 30, 2023

Duration: 30 seconds

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