NGC 1168

NGC 1168

NGC 1168 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries about 355 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,627 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
7,627 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1168 as it looked roughly 355 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 1166Spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1117Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 1236Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 1867Galaxy18 million ly
apart
NGC 1116Spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 1863Lenticular21 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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