NGC 1359

NGC 1359

NGC 1359 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 39,000 ly, about 39% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,959 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sm
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,959 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1359 as it looked roughly 92 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 1383Lenticular2.5 million ly
apart
IC 346Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
IC 343Lenticular6.3 million ly
apart
IC 1953Spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1452Lenticular7.9 million ly
apart
IC 1962Barred spiral8.6 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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