It possesses a large cluster of more than a billion stars, partially covered by thick dust clouds near one of the galaxies' core.[103] Another interacting galaxy pair, albeit in an earlier stage, consists of the galaxies NGC 5953 and NGC 5954. In this case, both are active galaxies, with the former a Seyfert 2 galaxy and the latter a LINER-type galaxy. Both are undergoing a burst of star formation triggered by the interaction.[104]