NGC 702 NED02
NGC 702 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
506 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 506 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 702 NED02 as it looked roughly 506 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 204Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 109Lenticular91 million ly
apartIC 105Lenticular91 million ly
apartNGC 617Spiral93 million ly
apartIC 1779Galaxy93 million ly
apartIC 103Elliptical96 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 109Lenticular91 million ly
apartIC 105Lenticular91 million ly
apartNGC 617Spiral93 million ly
apartIC 1779Galaxy93 million ly
apartIC 103Elliptical96 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).