NGC 1164

NGC 1164

NGC 1164 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Perseus about 198 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,044 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
198 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,044 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 198 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1164 as it looked roughly 198 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 1106Lenticular9.0 million ly
apart
IC 309Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1281Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 311Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1086Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 1293Elliptical14 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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