NGC 1040
NGC 1040
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1040 as it looked roughly 223 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 1001Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 996Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 999Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 906Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 909Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1000Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 996Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 999Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 906Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 909Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1000Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).