NGC 1567

NGC 1567

NGC 1567 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Caelum about 212 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,546 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
4,546 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1567 as it looked roughly 212 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 1595Elliptical8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1558Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 1570Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 1616Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 1680Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 2068Lenticular23 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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