NGC 1394

NGC 1394

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1394 as it looked roughly 197 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 1402Lenticular1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1391Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1388Elliptical9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1352Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1329Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 1403Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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