NGC 1668
NGC 1668
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
469 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
215k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 469 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1668 as it looked roughly 469 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 2008Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 2079Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2029Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral90 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical91 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2079Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2029Barred spiral89 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral90 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical91 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).