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Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Key Project Team / High-Z Supernova Search Team

NGC 4526 (also listed as NGC 4560) is a lenticular galaxy located approximately 55 million light-years from the Solar System in the Virgo constellation and discovered on 13 April 1784 by William Herschel. Image of Supernova SN 1994D (lower left) in the outskirts of NGC 4526.

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