NGC 1510

NGC 1510

NGC 1510 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 47 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 18,000 ly, about 18% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 989 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
18k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
989 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1510 as it looked roughly 47 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 1493Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1411Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
IC 2004Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1527Elliptical5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1433Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1556Barred spiral5.9 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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