NGC 1552

NGC 1552

NGC 1552 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 233 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,924 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
4,924 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1552 as it looked roughly 233 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 1541Lenticular7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1568Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 1576Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 1618Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 1612Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 1622Spiral20 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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