NGC 1433

NGC 1433

NGC 1433 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 50 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 972 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
9.9
apparent magnitude
972 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1433 as it looked roughly 50 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 1493Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1494Spiral3.7 million ly
apart
IC 2004Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1483Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1527Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
IC 1954Barred spiral4.4 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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