NGC 374

NGC 374

NGC 374 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 234 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,067 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
5,067 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 374 as it looked roughly 234 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 403Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 398Lenticular2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 385Elliptical3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 383Elliptical3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 397Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 420Lenticular5.4 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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