NGC 1589 — Sab in Taurus
Sab in Taurus, 3.1 arcminutes across, its light 181 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 1589
What you are looking at
NGC 1589 is an early-type spiral: a large, bright central bulge wrapped in smooth, tightly wound arms. We see it almost exactly edge-on, so its whole disc appears as one thin band of light, with dust showing as a dark line along its length. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 160,000 light-years, about 1.6 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 2001eb. It is cited in 70 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 13 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 1589 today set out about 181 million years ago, when dinosaurs had begun to dominate. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 3,791 km/s (8.5 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 1589 lies in Taurus. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in January it stands about 51° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: UGC 3072 (6′ away on the sky, at least 310,000 light-years from it); UGC 3058 (0.3° away on the sky, at least 970,000 light-years from it); UGC 3080 (0.4° away on the sky, at least 1,390,000 light-years from it); NGC 1593 (0.4° away on the sky, at least 1,410,000 light-years from it), and 3 more.
By apparent size it is number 494 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 15342 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Angular diameter | 3.06′ |
| Right ascension | 04h30m45.5s |
| Declination | +00°51′48.6″ |
| Constellation | Taurus |
| Inclination | 80.3° |
| Light travel time | 181 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 3.1 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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