NGC 1613

NGC 1613

NGC 1613 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 211 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 211 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1613 as it looked roughly 211 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 1621Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1610Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1604Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1594Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1609Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 1600Elliptical11 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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