NGC 1482

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NGC 1482 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Eridanus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1817 ± 40 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 87.4 ± 6.7 Mly (26.81 ± 2.05 Mpc). In addition, one non-redshift measurement gives a distance of 64 Mly (19.6 Mpc).

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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (Space Telescope Science Institute) and SINGS Team, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.