NGC 1107

NGC 1107

NGC 1107 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 160 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,424 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
3,424 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1107 as it looked roughly 160 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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NGC 1024Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1029Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 990Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 267Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 1134Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 273Spiral18 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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