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This luminous Picture of the Week shows Z 229-15 — imaged here in beautiful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — a celestial object that 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.

More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2313a/

Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Barth, R. Mushotzky
Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions