Distant Irregular Galaxy NGC 2719 & Companion in Lynx | Hubble Space Telescope

Distant Irregular Galaxy NGC 2719 & Companion in Lynx | Hubble Space Telescope

NGC 2719 is a Magellanic irregular galaxy in the constellation of Lynx. A Magellanic spiral galaxy has only one spiral arm. The long galaxy is NGC 2719 and the smaller one is NGC 2719A. NGC 2719 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on March 28, 1786. Together with the galaxy NGC 2719A (also known as PGC 2528A), NGC 2719 is listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 202. The galaxy pair is also listed as Holm 105 in Erik Holmberg's A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems, published in 1937.

Distance from Earth: ~159 million light-years

Image Processor Judy Schmidt: "They're an interacting pair, and the smaller one seems to have a rather long string of stars trailing it, visible at the lower right edge of the image. The stream itself is difficult to see, but does connect. Luckily, the stream just made it onto the detector. You can see a tiny sliver of a blank spot at the lower right corner."

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Processing: Judy Schmidt

Release Date: Sept. 15, 2025

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