NGC 2253
NGC 2253
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2253 as it looked roughly 166 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 449Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 2184 NED02Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1961Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2441Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2128Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2184 NED02Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1961Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2441Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2128Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral33 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).