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NGC 5364 Galaxy

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NGC 5364 in Virgo

at 11 o'clock,
is a grand design spiral galaxy designated as a type SA(rs)bc. Located 54,000.000 light-years away from Earth, it was discovered by the great William Herschel in 1786. The small edge-on to its upper-left is NGC 5360. The large and bright elliptical galaxy directly below it, NGC 5363 is gravitationally bound to NGC 5364. To the lower-left of NGC 5363 is edge-on NGC 5356. Several other small galaxies populate the field.

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