NGC 1185

NGC 1185

NGC 1185 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 225 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,812 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,812 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1185 as it looked roughly 225 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 1214Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1215Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1154Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
IC 1897Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 1216Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 1155Lenticular13 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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