NGC 1716

NGC 1716

NGC 1716 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 318 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,818 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
6,818 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1716 as it looked roughly 318 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.

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NGC 1686Barred spiral58 million ly
apart
IC 2104Barred spiral65 million ly
apart
NGC 1701Barred spiral66 million ly
apart
IC 368Lenticular67 million ly
apart
NGC 1710Elliptical80 million ly
apart
IC 437Spiral84 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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