NGC 1399

NGC 1399

NGC 1399 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Fornax about 66 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,447 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
9.4
apparent magnitude
1,447 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1399 as it looked roughly 66 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 1369Lenticular1,000,000 ly
apart
NGC 1427Elliptical1.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1373Elliptical2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1379Elliptical2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1336Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1460Lenticular3.0 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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