NGC 1379

NGC 1379

NGC 1379 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,376 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
1,376 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1379 as it looked roughly 64 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 1373Elliptical410,000 ly
apart
NGC 1374Elliptical1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1351ABarred spiral1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1427Elliptical2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1369Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1399Elliptical2.7 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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