NGC 1326B

NGC 1326B

NGC 1326B is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 47 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 825 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBm
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
825 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1326B as it looked roughly 47 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 1389Elliptical2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1406Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
IC 1993Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1411Elliptical6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1484Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1510Lenticular8.3 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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