IC 4662, also known as ESO 102-14 is an irregular galaxy located in the constellation Pavo 7.96 million light years away. It was discovered by

Robert Thorbun Ayton Innes The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

in 1901. It has a diameter of 7000 light years and an angular size of 3.2' x 1.9'. IC 4662 is part of a Hubble study of starbursts in nearby, small, or dwarf, galaxies. Based on this study, astronomers have found that starbursts continue 100 times longer than first thought, lasting 200 million to 400 million years. These galaxies show that starbursts are not isolated events, but sweep across a galaxy. On the Hubble image is one of the H II regions of the galaxy.

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4662 Irregular galaxies {{galaxy-stub ''Attribution'' This article contains text copied from https://spacetelescope.org/images/opo0919d/ credit NASA, ESA and K. McQuinn which is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license Pavo (constellation)