NGC 1080

NGC 1080

NGC 1080 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 366 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,843 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
366 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
7,843 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 366 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1080 as it looked roughly 366 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 243Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 1126Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 1072Spiral33 million ly
apart
IC 264Elliptical36 million ly
apart
NGC 1033Spiral37 million ly
apart
NGC 1041Elliptical38 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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