Tags: Galaxy.

NGC 53 is a barred spiral galaxy with a ring in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1860. He described it as very faint small extended. The galaxy is approximately 120000 light-years across making it about as large as the Milky Way.

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