NGC 1585
NGC 1585
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
218 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 218 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1585 as it looked roughly 218 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 2068Lenticular4.4 million ly
apartNGC 1616Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1558Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1567Elliptical24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1616Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 1558Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1595Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1567Elliptical24 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).