NGC 1739

NGC 1739

NGC 1739 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 184 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,892 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
184 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
3,892 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 184 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1739 as it looked roughly 184 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 1738Barred spiral1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1730Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1821Irregular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1725Elliptical23 million ly
apart
IC 400Galaxy23 million ly
apart
NGC 1728Spiral24 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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