NGC 1701

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NGC 1701, also known as the Trekkie Galaxy, is a large unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Caelum. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,836 ± 24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 86.1 ± 6.0 Mpc (~281 million ly).

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Image: Legacy Surveys / D.Lang (Perimeter Institute) & Meli thev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.