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M96 (NGC 3368), a 10th-magnitude spiral galaxy in Leo.
M96 is the brightest galaxy in the Leo I or M96 group of galaxies, whose distance was recently estimated at 38 million light years, through observations of Cepheid variables made with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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