NGC 1161

NGC 1161

NGC 1161 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 72,000 ly, about 72% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,940 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
1,940 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1161 as it looked roughly 92 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 1282Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 1198Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 1138Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 1169Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 1160Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 1159Spiral30 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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