NGC 1296
NGC 1296
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1296 as it looked roughly 442 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 299Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 1263Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 306Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 318Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 321Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 328Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1263Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 306Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 318Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 321Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 328Spiral26 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).