NGC 137
NGC 137
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 137 as it looked roughly 246 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 34Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 180Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 95Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 105Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 257Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 180Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 95Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 105Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 257Spiral20 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).