The Silver Coin Galaxy
NGC 253 in Sculptor
is the brightest of the Sculptor Group near the south galactic pole. This Group is the nearest neighbor of our own Local Group of galaxies. NGC 253 was discovered by Caroline Herschel on September 23, 1783 with '...an excellent small Newtonian sweeper'. An earlier version of mine was published in Sky & Telescope magazine's 2014 Beautiful Universe. Thanks to Telescope Live for this fine data.
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is the brightest of the Sculptor Group near the south galactic pole. This Group is the nearest neighbor of our own Local Group of galaxies. NGC 253 was discovered by Caroline Herschel on September 23, 1783 with '...an excellent small Newtonian sweeper'. An earlier version of mine was published in Sky & Telescope magazine's 2014 Beautiful Universe. Thanks to Telescope Live for this fine data.
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