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NGC 524
NGC 524 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces, about 90 million light-years from Earth, imaged in detail by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013.
NGC 5585
NGC 5585 is a late-type spiral galaxy in Ursa Major and the M101 group, discovered by William Herschel in 1789 and best known as a bright spiral dominated by dark matter.
NGC 5746
NGC 5746 is a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in Virgo, about 100 million light years away, known for its prominent dust lane and boxy bulge.
NGC 5775
NGC 5775 is a nearly edge-on barred spiral galaxy in Virgo, best known as a prototype for studying how star formation drives gas into its halo.
NGC 5845
NGC 5845 is a compact elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and the nearest known local analog of rare compact quiescent galaxies at redshift z ∼ 2.
NGC 5906
NGC 5906 is the fainter western portion of the edge-on spiral NGC 5907, the Splinter Galaxy in Draco, split off by its dust lane and recorded by George Johnstone Stoney in 1850.
NGC 7619
NGC 7619 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus and one of the two dominant members of the Pegasus I group, about 185 million light-years away.
NGC 7793
NGC 7793, also called Bond's Galaxy, is a flocculent spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, one of the brightest members of the nearby Sculptor Group, about 12 million light-years away.