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18-Nov-2014 Andy Casely

Far Far Away

Loftus, NSW

There are many galaxies behind the Fornax Galaxy, quite a few are dwarf galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, 56 million light-years away. But the little 18.9 magnitude orange smudge highlighted here is a galaxy over 2000 million light-years away! It took a long time for those intrepid photons from that galaxy to arrive at my camera in my backyard, having taken 15% of the age of the Universe to do so. And the galaxy is receding from us at 48,400km per second, shown by its redshift of 0.161. It's the farthest thing I have yet imaged. Data from the NASA Extragalactic Database.

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