SDSS-J00174-3373

SDSS J00174-3373 is a elliptical galaxy located approximately 3,473.2 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus. Its coordinates in the sky are right ascension 1.744° and declination -33.737°, and it is catalogued in the SDSS.

The light reaching Earth from SDSS J00174-3373 today left the galaxy roughly 3,473.2 million years ago. What you see in telescope imagery is a snapshot of the galaxy as it appeared before most of Earth’s mammalian history.

Through the Galactic Registry, you can symbolically dedicate SDSS J00174-3373 in a name, memory, or message of your choosing. Your dedication is filed permanently in our public registry and printed on an archival 12″×18″ cotton-stock certificate, shipped worldwide. This is not an official IAU renaming — only the International Astronomical Union can officially name celestial bodies — but it is a permanent symbolic act tied to a galaxy that demonstrably exists, can be pointed at from any observatory on Earth, and has been imaged by NASA, ESA, or a ground-based telescope.