NGC 653
NGC 653
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
252 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 252 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 653 as it looked roughly 252 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 171Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 712Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 621Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 703Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 662Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 614Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 712Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 621Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 703Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 662Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 614Lenticular16 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).