NGC 1310

NGC 1310

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1310 as it looked roughly 82 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
Fornax ALenticular710,000 ly
apart
NGC 1316CLenticular1.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1326ASpiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1381Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1341Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1382Elliptical6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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