NGC 1671

NGC 1671

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
297 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 297 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1671 as it looked roughly 297 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 388 NED01Galaxy56 million ly
apart
NGC 1606Lenticular65 million ly
apart
NGC 1603Lenticular65 million ly
apart
IC 2057Spiral65 million ly
apart
IC 365Lenticular66 million ly
apart
NGC 1612Lenticular67 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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