NGC 1085

NGC 1085

NGC 1085 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 316 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,980 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
188k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
6,980 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1085 as it looked roughly 316 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 1844Barred spiral2.6 million ly
apart
IC 1843Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
IC 1836Galaxy5.2 million ly
apart
IC 244Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 246Lenticular13 million ly
apart
IC 241Elliptical16 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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