NGC 335

NGC 335

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
263 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 263 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 335 as it looked roughly 263 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 1610Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 320Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 1623BIrregular23 million ly
apart
IC 1670BLenticular25 million ly
apart
NGC 247BBarred spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 93Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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