NGC 568, also commonly referred as IC 1709 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy[2] in the constellation of Sculptor.[5] The galaxy is 266 million light-years from Earth[6] and was discovered by John Herschel on November 29, 1837, and Lewis Swift, an American astronomer who listed it and gave it the name IC 1709 on September 4, 1897.[1]
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