ESO 593-8, which is known simply as 'The Bird' (also ESO 593-IG 008 or IRAS 19115–212) is group of interacting galaxies located in the constellation of Sagittarius, 650 million light-years away from Earth.[3] It was created by a merger of two spiral galaxies and an irregular dwarf-galaxy.[4] The resulting galaxy has a size similar to the Milky Way: around 100,000 light years.[5] The galaxies were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope and released in April 2008.