NGC 1351

NGC 1351

NGC 1351 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 71 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,518 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
71 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
1,518 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 71 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1351 as it looked roughly 71 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 1380ALenticular2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1336Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1437BSpiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1399Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
IC 1913Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1369Lenticular5.0 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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