NGC 1336

NGC 1336

NGC 1336 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 67 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 38,000 ly, about 38% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,511 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,511 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1336 as it looked roughly 67 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 1369Lenticular2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1399Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1326Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1373Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1351ABarred spiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1379Elliptical4.0 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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