NGC 1119

NGC 1119

NGC 1119 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 203 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 28,000 ly, about 28% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 203 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1119 as it looked roughly 203 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

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NGC 1083Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 1103Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 1853Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 1081Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 245Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 1118Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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