Caption: The irregular dwarf galaxy IC 1613 in this 23' by 26' image contains some 100 million stars and is a member of our local galaxy group (a collection which also includes our Milky Way, The Andromeda spiral and the Magellanic clouds). It is at a distance of 730 kpc (2.4 million light years) and contains several examples of Cepheid variable stars -- key calibrators of the cosmic distance ladder. The bulk of its stars were formed about 7 billion years ago an it does not appear to be undergoing star formation at the present day, unlike other very active dwarf irregulars such as the Large and Small Magellanic clouds.