NGC 1326

NGC 1326

NGC 1326 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,365 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
10.4
apparent magnitude
1,365 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1326 as it looked roughly 64 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 1351ABarred spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1373Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1379Elliptical3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1336Elliptical3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1374Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1369Lenticular3.7 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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