NGC 1238

NGC 1238

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1238 as it looked roughly 233 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 1897Lenticular2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1216Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1215Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1214Lenticular9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1185Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1295Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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