IC 342, Hidden Galaxy (49935304392)

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2020/07/16: Phil Plait has penned an article featuring my work here: www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-beautiful-spiral-galaxy-ic-342-... A 4k, dual screen wallpaper version of this is available here: https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?short=2jna7xR Famously overlooked grand design spiral galaxy IC 342 as seen last year (2019 Oct) by Hubble. It is situated rather close to the plane of our own galaxy, making it difficult to discern through all the dust and stars between us and it. It's similar in size to the Triangulum Galaxy, but dimmed so much by dust that it wasn't discovered until a couple hundred ye