NGC 1092

NGC 1092

NGC 1092 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 418 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,835 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
8,835 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1092 as it looked roughly 418 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.

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apart
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apart
NGC 967Elliptical30 million ly
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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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