NGC 1504

NGC 1504

NGC 1504 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 464 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 464 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
464 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 464 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1504 as it looked roughly 464 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 1505Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1516ASpiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 1478Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 1477Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 1472Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1475Galaxy20 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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