NGC 1370

NGC 1370

NGC 1370 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 50 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 22,000 ly, about 22% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,073 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
1,073 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1370 as it looked roughly 50 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 1362Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1390Lenticular7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1406Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1340Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1366Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1331Elliptical12 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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