Tags: Galaxy.
NGC 3115 (also called the Spindle Galaxy or Caldwell 53) is a lenticular (S0) galaxy in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel on February 22 1787. At about 32 million light-years away from us it is several times bigger than our Milky Way. It is a lenticular (S0) galaxy because it contains a disk and a central bulge of stars but without a detectable spiral pattern. NGC 3115 is seen almost exactly edge-on that it was occasionally mis-classified as elliptical.
