NGC 1653

NGC 1653

NGC 1653 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 202 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,339 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
4,339 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1653 as it looked roughly 202 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 1657Spiral1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1682Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1684Elliptical8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1654Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1685Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 1670Lenticular13 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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