NGC 1333

Measured

Distance

947 light-years

Constellation

Perseus

Position (J2000)

RA 3h 29m 19s, Dec +31.36°

How far, from the Sun

947 light-years. To cross it:

• Light947 years
• Voyager 1's speed16.8 million years
• Driving at 100 km/h10.2 billion years

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

• Infrared telescopes find well over a hundred very young stars in it.
• It lies in the Perseus molecular cloud, one of the nearest star-forming clouds to the Sun.

Where this comes from

• Hunt & Reffert 2023, A&A 673, A114: Gaia DR3 cluster distance 290.3 pc (16th–84th percentile 289.5–291.1 pc)
• This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, CDS, Strasbourg, France (Wenger et al. 2000, A&AS 143, 9).
• This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier).

Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.