NGC 1957
NGC 1957
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1957 as it looked roughly 153 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 2132Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 1954Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy10 million ly
apartIC 416Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1954Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy10 million ly
apartIC 416Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1993Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral15 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).