NGC 1572
NGC 1572
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
283 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 283 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1572 as it looked roughly 283 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 2036Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1660Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 1687Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 1598Barred spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1660Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 1687Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 1598Barred spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral55 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).