NGC 1599

NGC 1599

NGC 1599 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 190 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 190 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1599 as it looked roughly 190 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 373Lenticular2.5 million ly
apart
IC 2080Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1607Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
IC 372Lenticular6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1611Lenticular9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1580Barred spiral9.9 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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