NGC 1030

NGC 1030

NGC 1030 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries about 399 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,616 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
174k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
8,616 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1030 as it looked roughly 399 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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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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