Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4151  ·  NGC 4156
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NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron", Brice Fayd'Herbe
NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron"
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NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron"

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NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron", Brice Fayd'Herbe
NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron"
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NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron"

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The Eye of Sauron ! NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure, in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Most catalogs list it as roughly 40 million light-years away. But a paper from 2014 shows that it’s much farther than that : 62 million light-years !

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NGC 4151, "The Eye of Sauron", Brice Fayd'Herbe