NGC 1354

NGC 1354

NGC 1354 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 84 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,804 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
1,804 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1354 as it looked roughly 84 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 1407Elliptical5.7 million ly
apart
IC 343Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1452Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1464Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1377Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1383Lenticular8.9 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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