NGC 1216

NGC 1216

NGC 1216 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 236 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,016 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
5,016 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1216 as it looked roughly 236 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 1238Elliptical6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1215Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
IC 1897Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1214Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 1185Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 1148Barred spiral15 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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