NGC 1214

NGC 1214

NGC 1214 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 225 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,841 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
4,841 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1214 as it looked roughly 225 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.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 1215Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1185Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
IC 1897Lenticular7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1238Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1216Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 1154Spiral11 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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