NGC 1411

NGC 1411

NGC 1411 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 46 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 33,000 ly, about 33% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 970 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
46 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
33k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
970 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 46 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1411 as it looked roughly 46 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 1510Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1493Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1433Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
IC 2004Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
IC 1914Spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1326BBarred spiral6.6 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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