NGC 1509
NGC 1509
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1509 as it looked roughly 420 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 362Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 2045Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 350Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 367Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 1505Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2045Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 350Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 367Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 1505Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral44 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).