NGC 1369

NGC 1369

NGC 1369 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 66 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 43,000 ly, about 43% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,414 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
1,414 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1369 as it looked roughly 66 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 1399Elliptical1,000,000 ly
apart
NGC 1427Elliptical1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1336Elliptical2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1379Elliptical2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1373Elliptical2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1460Lenticular2.9 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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