NGC 1489

NGC 1489

NGC 1489 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 549 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 270,000 ly, about 2.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,453 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
549 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
270k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
11,453 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 549 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1489 as it looked roughly 549 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
IC 2063Spiral71 million ly
apart
IC 1975Galaxy85 million ly
apart
IC 326Elliptical98 million ly
apart
NGC 1450Elliptical100 million ly
apart
IC 375Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
NGC 1327Barred spiral110 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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