NGC 1052

NGC 1052

NGC 1052 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 69 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,474 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
69 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
1,474 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 69 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1052 as it looked roughly 69 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 1022Barred spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 988Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1084Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 991Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1042Spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 1140Barred spiral4.7 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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