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AM 0644-741 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy and a ring galaxy which is 300 million light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Volans. The yellowish nucleus was once the center of a normal spiral galaxy and the ring which currently surrounds the center is 150000 light-year diameter.

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