NGC 1441

NGC 1441

NGC 1441 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 195 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,227 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
195 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
4,227 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 195 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1441 as it looked roughly 195 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 1417Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1449Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1418Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1376Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1451Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 347Lenticular11 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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