NGC 1843

NGC 1843

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1843 as it looked roughly 122 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 1889Elliptical7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 1888Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 1924Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 1784Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 407Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 1681Barred spiral17 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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