NGC 1355

NGC 1355

NGC 1355 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 184 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 184 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
184 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 184 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1355 as it looked roughly 184 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 1358Lenticular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1346Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1314Spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1304Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 1451Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1453Elliptical11 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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