NGC 240
NGC 240
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
224k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 240 as it looked roughly 570 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 1568Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 190 NED01Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 190 NED02Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1569Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 1565Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1566Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 190 NED01Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 190 NED02Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 1569Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 1565Elliptical37 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).