NGC 434A

NGC 434A

NGC 434A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 221 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,740 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
4,740 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 434A as it looked roughly 221 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 434Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 440Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 1597Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 484Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 466Lenticular24 million ly
apart
IC 1649Barred spiral29 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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