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Original – NGC 1427A, appearing here to be glitter in space, is an irregular galaxy. It is "passing through the Fornax cluster at nearly 600 kilometers per second" and is approximately 51.9 million light years from Earth.
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Encyclopedic illustration of an irregular galaxy, and is the lede image for two articles.