NGC 6054

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What Wikipedia says

NGC 6054 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 460 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered by astronomer Lewis Swift on June 27, 1886. It was then rediscovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on June 1, 1888. PGC 57073 is often misidentified as NGC 6054.

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Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.