NGC 1654

NGC 1654

NGC 1654 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 211 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,577 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
4,577 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1654 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 1670Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1685Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1657Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1684Elliptical8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1653Elliptical9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1659Barred spiral10 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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