NGC 1098

NGC 1098

NGC 1098 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 347 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,387 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
347 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
7,387 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 347 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1098 as it looked roughly 347 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 1100Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1099Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 1065Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 253Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 254Galaxy17 million ly
apart
IC 251Elliptical17 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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