NGC 1100

NGC 1100

NGC 1100 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 357 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,554 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
357 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
170k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
7,554 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 357 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1100 as it looked roughly 357 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 1099Barred spiral2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1098Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 1074Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 1075Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 1105Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 254Galaxy17 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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