NGC 1191

NGC 1191

NGC 1191 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 442 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,342 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
9,342 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1191 as it looked roughly 442 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 1180Elliptical6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1181Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1192Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1203AElliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1151Elliptical22 million ly
apart
IC 268Spiral22 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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