Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  IC 1537  ·  NGC 55
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NGC 55 and IC 1537, Miles Zhou
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NGC 55 and IC 1537

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NGC 55 and IC 1537

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NGC 55 is an example of an edge-on barred spiral galaxy located about 7 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. At magnitude 8.8, NGC 55 is the second brightest member of the Sculptor Group of galaxies which also includes (not shown) NGC 253, NGC 300, and NGC 7793.

IC 1537 is a 10 magnitude bright nebula visually overlapped with NGC 55, but may not have any physical binding with the latter.

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NGC 55 and IC 1537, Miles Zhou