NGC 1505

NGC 1505

NGC 1505 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 460 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 460 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
460 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 460 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1505 as it looked roughly 460 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 1504Elliptical4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1516ASpiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 1472Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1478Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1477Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 1475Galaxy21 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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