NGC 1042
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Nearby galaxies
The galaxy appears near the spiral galaxySpiral galaxy
A spiral galaxy is a certain kind of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral galaxies consist of a flat, rotating disk containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as...
NGC 1035 in the sky, and both have similar redshifts. The two objects may therefore be physically associated with each other.