NGC 5601

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NGC 5601 is a lenticular galaxy around 259 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. NGC 5601 was discovered on March 27th, 1867 by the Irish astronomer Robert Ball, and it has a diameter around 88,000 light-years.

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Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.