NGC 1631

NGC 1631

NGC 1631 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 436 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 9,404 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
436 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
9,404 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 436 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1631 as it looked roughly 436 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 1630Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 1584Elliptical31 million ly
apart
NGC 1583Elliptical36 million ly
apart
NGC 1547Barred spiral45 million ly
apart
NGC 1565Spiral46 million ly
apart
NGC 1564Lenticular47 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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