NGC 1316B
NGC 1316B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1316B as it looked roughly 570 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
NGC 1316ABarred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1944Spiral110 million ly
apartNGC 1327Barred spiral120 million ly
apartIC 1916Barred spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1944Spiral110 million ly
apartNGC 1327Barred spiral120 million ly
apartIC 1916Barred spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral130 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).