NGC 1470

NGC 1470

NGC 1470 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 309 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,464 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
309 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
6,464 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 309 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1470 as it looked roughly 309 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 1467Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1423Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 368Lenticular47 million ly
apart
NGC 1328Lenticular47 million ly
apart
NGC 1322Elliptical51 million ly
apart
NGC 1424Spiral52 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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