NGC 1404

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NGC 1404 is an elliptical galaxy in the Southern constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on November 28, 1837. Based on the tip of the red-giant branch distance indicator, it lies at a distance of approximately 60 million light-years from the Milky Way.

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