NGC 1012

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NGC 1012 is a lenticular galaxy in the Constellation Aries. It was discovered on September 11, 1784 by William Herschel, and observed again by John Herschel. John Louis Emil Dreyer described it as faint, pretty small, irregularly round, brighter middle, star involved.

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