NGC 1559

NGC 1559

NGC 1559 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Reticulum about 61 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,333 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
61 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
1,333 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 61 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1559 as it looked roughly 61 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 1672Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1511ABarred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1511Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1688Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1536Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1546Lenticular7.1 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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