The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. NGC 1512 has been in the process of merging with its smaller galactic neighbor for 400 million years, and this drawn-out interaction has ignited waves of star formation and warped both galaxies.

Credit:

Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)

Coordinates
Position (RA):   	4 3 54.11
Position (Dec):  	-43° 22' 0.99"
Field of view:   	20.43 x 22.80 arcminutes
Orientation:     	North is 0.2° left of vertical 

Colors & filters Band	Wavelength	Telescope
Optical g       	477 nm     	Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam
Optical r        	637 nm     	Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam
Optical i       	777 nm     	Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam
Optical z        	915 nm     	Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam
Infrared Y       	988 nm     	Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope DECam