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Hubble "Crane-s" in for a Closer Look at a Galaxy

In 1900, astronomer Joseph Lunt made a discovery: Peering through a telescope at Cape Town Observatory, the British-South African scientist spotted this beautiful sight in the southern constellation of Grus (The Crane): a barred spiral galaxy now named IC 5201.
IC 5201 sits over 40 million light-years away from us. As with two thirds of all the spirals we see in the Universe - including the Milky Way - the galaxy has a bar of stars slicing through its center.
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IC 5201 (also ESO 289-18, IRAS 22179-4617 and PGC 68618) is a magnitude +10.8 barred spiral galaxy located 42 million light-years away in the constellation Grus.
It is an active Seyfert type 2 galaxy.

The galaxy was discovered by the British/South African astronomer Joseph Lunt using a 18-inch f/15 Grubb refractor at the Royal Observatory near Cape Town in 1900 while searching for Brorsen's comet.

The galaxy hosted the type II supernova 1978g

Right Ascension 22h 20m 57.4s, Declination -46° 02' 09"



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