NGC 1060
NGC 1060
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
241 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 241 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1060 as it looked roughly 241 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
IC 1823Spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 973Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1093Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 940Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 931Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 917Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 973Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1093Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 940Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 931Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 917Spiral19 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).