NGC 1625

NGC 1625

NGC 1625 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 224 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,700 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
167k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
4,700 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1625 as it looked roughly 224 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 1622Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1618Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1600Elliptical9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1610Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1576Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1645Lenticular11 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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