NGC 1166

NGC 1166

NGC 1166 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries about 358 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,693 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
358 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
7,693 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 358 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1166 as it looked roughly 358 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 1168Spiral3.1 million ly
apart
IC 1867Galaxy18 million ly
apart
NGC 1117Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 1236Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 1116Spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 1868Galaxy20 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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