NGC 1389

NGC 1389

NGC 1389 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 47 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 35,000 ly, about 35% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 995 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
995 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1389 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 1326BBarred spiral2.0 million ly
apart
IC 1993Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1406Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1484Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1411Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1531Elliptical7.0 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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