NGC 1104

NGC 1104

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
303 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 303 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1104 as it looked roughly 303 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 1856Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1094Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
IC 246Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1004Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 1016Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 1008Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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