NGC 1099

NGC 1099

NGC 1099 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 359 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 220,000 ly, about 2.2 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,613 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
359 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
220k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
7,613 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 359 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1099 as it looked roughly 359 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 1100Spiral2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1074Spiral9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1075Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1098Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 1105Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 254Galaxy18 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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