NGC 1258

NGC 1258

NGC 1258 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 69 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 28,000 ly, about 28% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,469 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
69 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
1,469 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 69 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1258 as it looked roughly 69 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 1297Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1332Elliptical4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1306Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1300Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1187Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1353Barred spiral5.7 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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