page_title: NGC 5331
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 5331
caption_attribution_description: English: NGC 5331 is a pair of interacting galaxies beginning to hold their arms . There is a blue trail which appears in the image flowing to the right of the system. NGC 5331 is very bright in the infrared, with about a hundred billion times the luminosity of the Sun. It is located in the constellation Virgo, the Maiden, about 450 million light-years away from Earth. 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. About the objectObject nameNGC 5331, VV 253, KPG 401Object descriptionInteracting GalaxiesPosition (J2000)13 52 16.39 +02 06 15.0ConstellationVirgoDistance450 million light-years (150 million parsecs)About the dataData descriptionThe Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)InstrumentACS/WFCExposure date(s)December 22, 2001Exposure time33 minutesFiltersF435W (B) and F814W (I)
context_page_description: NGC 5331 is a pair of two interacting galaxies in the constellation Virgo. They were discovered by William Herschel on May 13, 1793.
context_section_description: NGC 5331 is a pair of two interacting galaxies in the constellation Virgo. They were discovered by William Herschel on May 13, 1793.
caption: Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5331
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