NGC 1358

NGC 1358

NGC 1358 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 188 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,021 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
188 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
4,021 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 188 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1358 as it looked roughly 188 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 1346Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1355Lenticular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1376Spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1417Spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1314Spiral9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1304Elliptical11 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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