NGC 41
NGC 41
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
275 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 275 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 41 as it looked roughly 275 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
NGC 42Elliptical3.1 million ly
apartIC 1541Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy11 million ly
apartIC 1540Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1541Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy11 million ly
apartIC 1540Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical12 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).