NGC 1353

NGC 1353

NGC 1353 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 71 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% 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

Barred spiral
type · Sb
71 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k 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 1353 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 1332Elliptical2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1401Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1415Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1414Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1345Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1325Barred spiral4.3 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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