NGC 1570

NGC 1570

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1570 as it looked roughly 206 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 1558Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1616Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 2068Lenticular9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1585Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1567Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 1595Elliptical20 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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