NGC 1030
NGC 1030
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
174k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1030 as it looked roughly 399 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 248Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 235Galaxy24 million ly
apartIC 1855Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1857Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1112Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 235Galaxy24 million ly
apartIC 1855Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1857Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1112Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular38 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).