NGC 134

NGC 134

NGC 134 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor about 74 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,602 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
74 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
10.3
apparent magnitude
1,602 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 74 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 134 as it looked roughly 74 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 1555Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 148Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 254Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 289Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
IC 1554Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 150Barred spiral7.1 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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