NGC 1328

NGC 1328

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1328 as it looked roughly 288 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 1322Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1323Lenticular9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1305Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1308Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 1298Elliptical21 million ly
apart
NGC 1324Barred spiral25 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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