NGC 1993
NGC 1993
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
147 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 147 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1993 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 416Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartIC 2143Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 1954Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 2151Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 438Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2143Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 1954Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 2151Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 438Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1906Spiral11 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).