NGC 141
NGC 141
NGC 141 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 550 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 550 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 141 as it looked roughly 550 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 138Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 1565Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1569Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1549Lenticular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1565Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1569Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1549Lenticular31 million ly
apart
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).