NGC 4378

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What Wikipedia says

NGC 4378 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 2,903±24 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 139.7 ± 9.8 Mly (42.82 ± 3.02 Mpc). Also, six non-redshift measurements give a similar distance of 136.50 ± 16.23 Mly (41.850 ± 4.975 Mpc).

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