NGC 1500

NGC 1500

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
479 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
208k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 479 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1500 as it looked roughly 479 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 2018Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
IC 2029Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 2023Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 2028Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 2046Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 1973Galaxy34 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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