NGC 1413

NGC 1413

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1413 as it looked roughly 437 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 1372Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1368Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 328Spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 327Spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 321Elliptical29 million ly
apart
IC 350Spiral30 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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