NGC 1954
NGC 1954
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
147 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 147 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1954 as it looked roughly 147 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 2132Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 1957Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartIC 416Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1957Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartIC 416Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy14 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).