NGC 1341

NGC 1341

NGC 1341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 87 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 36,000 ly, about 36% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,859 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
87 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
1,859 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 87 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1341 as it looked roughly 87 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 1326ASpiral2.0 million ly
apart
Fornax BSpiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1382Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
Fornax ALenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1310Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1381Lenticular5.7 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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