NGC 1614

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NGC 1614 is the New General Catalogue identifier for a spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Eridanus. It was discovered on December 29, 1885 by American astronomer Lewis Swift, who described it in a shorthand notation as: pretty faint, small, round, a little brighter middle.

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Image: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.