NGC 1084

NGC 1084

NGC 1084 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 65 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 65,000 ly, about 65% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,414 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
65 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
1,414 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 65 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1084 as it looked roughly 65 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 1042Spiral2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1047Lenticular2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 1110Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1052Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1022Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 961Spiral5.8 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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