IC 10

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IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on 8 October 1887. In 1935 Nicholas Mayall became the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic.

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Image: Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Data obtained and processed by: P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), G. Jacoby, K. Olsen, & C. Smith (NOAO/AURA/NSF) Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.