NGC 1448

NGC 1448

NGC 1448 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Horologium about 54 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,198 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
54 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
10.9
apparent magnitude
1,198 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 54 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1448 as it looked roughly 54 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 1483Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
IC 1970Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1494Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1433Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1495Spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1493Barred spiral5.8 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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