NGC 3109

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NGC 3109 is a small barred Magellanic type spiral or irregular galaxy around 4.35 Mly away in the direction of the constellation of Hydra. It was discovered by John Herschel on March 24, 1835 while he was in what is now South Africa.

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Image: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.