NGC 1356
NGC 1356
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
187k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1356 as it looked roughly 550 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 1947Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1950Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1932Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1936Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1950Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1932Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral23 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).