NGC 7172

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What Wikipedia says

NGC 7172 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It is located at a distance of about 110 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7172 is about 100,000 light years across. It was discovered by John Herschel on September 23, 1834.

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Image: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.