NGC 1060

NGC 1060

NGC 1060 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum about 241 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 5,190 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
241 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
5,190 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 241 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1060 as it looked roughly 241 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
IC 1823Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 973Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1093Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 940Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 931Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 917Spiral19 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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