NGC 1143

NGC 1143

NGC 1143 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 393 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,459 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
393 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
8,459 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 393 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1143 as it looked roughly 393 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 1144Elliptical9.5 million ly
apart
IC 263Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1149Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 283Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 1072Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 1239Lenticular33 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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