NGC 1796A

NGC 1796A

NGC 1796A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado about 405 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,700 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
405 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
8,700 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 405 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1796A as it looked roughly 405 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 1765Elliptical7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2178Elliptical53 million ly
apart
IC 2037Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
NGC 2205Elliptical56 million ly
apart
IC 2034Spiral58 million ly
apart
NGC 2229Lenticular66 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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