NGC 1383

NGC 1383

NGC 1383 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 91 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,978 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
91 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
1,978 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 91 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1383 as it looked roughly 91 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
IC 346Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1359Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
IC 343Lenticular4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1452Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
IC 1953Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1482Lenticular7.7 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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