NGC 1595

NGC 1595

NGC 1595 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Caelum about 218 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,702 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
218 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
4,702 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 218 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1595 as it looked roughly 218 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 1567Elliptical8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1558Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 1616Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 1570Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 1680Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 1585Spiral22 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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