Tags: Galaxy.
NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy) is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. It has a strikingly uneven shape and its axis of rotation is not exactly in its centre. In the vicinity of NGC 1313 there is another galaxy called NGC 1309. NGC 1309 was the site of supernova SN 1987k.
