NGC 1035

NGC 1035

NGC 1035 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 57 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 35,000 ly, about 35% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,250 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
57 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
1,250 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 57 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1035 as it looked roughly 57 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 961Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1110Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1047Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1042Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 936Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1084Spiral8.3 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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