NGC 758

NGC 758

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
608 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 608 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 758 as it looked roughly 608 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 185Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 186ALenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 177Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 1781Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 145Barred spiral61 million ly
apart
IC 173Barred spiral63 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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