NGC 1398

NGC 1398

NGC 1398 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 65 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,491 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
65 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
9.6
apparent magnitude
1,491 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 65 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1398 as it looked roughly 65 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 1426Elliptical5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1292Spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1385Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1306Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1331Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1339Elliptical7.3 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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