NGC 1332 — E-S0 in Eridanus
E-S0 in Eridanus, 5.3 arcminutes across, its light 73 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 1332
What you are looking at
NGC 1332 is a lenticular galaxy: a disc galaxy that has largely used up the gas it needs to form new stars, so its disc is smooth and has no spiral arms. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 113,000 light-years, about 1.2 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as one of a pair of galaxies. It is cited in 384 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 16 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 73 million years. When it left, dinosaurs were at their peak. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 1,527 km/s (3.4 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 1332 lies in Eridanus. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in December it stands about 29° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: NGC 1325A (0.3° away on the sky, at least 440,000 light-years from it); NGC 1325 (0.5° away on the sky, at least 610,000 light-years from it); NGC 1315 (0.7° away on the sky, at least 950,000 light-years from it); NGC 1347 (1.2° away on the sky, at least 1,570,000 light-years from it), and 8 more.
By apparent size it is number 108 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 12838 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | E-S0 |
| Angular diameter | 5.32′ |
| Right ascension | 03h26m17.2s |
| Declination | -21°20′07.2″ |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
| Inclination | 54.6° |
| Light travel time | 73 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 5.3 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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