NGC 1254

NGC 1254

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
533 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 533 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1254 as it looked roughly 533 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
IC 1998Elliptical87 million ly
apart
IC 298BBarred spiral96 million ly
apart
IC 298AGalaxy96 million ly
apart
IC 1930Elliptical100 million ly
apart
IC 325Spiral100 million ly
apart
IC 1967Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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