NGC 1573

NGC 1573

NGC 1573 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis about 196 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,221 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
4,221 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1573 as it looked roughly 196 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.

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NGC 1961Spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 440Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 2258Lenticular32 million ly
apart
IC 449Elliptical38 million ly
apart
NGC 2314Elliptical38 million ly
apart
IC 442Lenticular39 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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