NGC-10460
- Distance
- 234.5 Mly
- Morphology
- irregular
- Constellation
- Orion
- Right Asc.
- 274.902°
- Declination
- 43.309°
- Catalog
- NGC
About NGC-10460
NGC 10460 is a irregular galaxy located approximately 234.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. Its coordinates in the sky are right ascension 274.902° and declination 43.309°, and it is catalogued in the New General Catalogue (NGC).
The light reaching Earth from NGC 10460 today left the galaxy roughly 234.5 million years ago. What you see in telescope imagery is a snapshot of the galaxy as it appeared before most of Earth’s mammalian history.
Through the Galactic Registry, you can symbolically dedicate NGC 10460 in a name, memory, or message of your choosing. Your dedication is filed permanently in our public registry and printed on an archival 12″×18″ cotton-stock certificate, shipped worldwide. This is not an official IAU renaming — only the International Astronomical Union can officially name celestial bodies — but it is a permanent symbolic act tied to a galaxy that demonstrably exists, can be pointed at from any observatory on Earth, and has been imaged by NASA, ESA, or a ground-based telescope.