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
apartIC 186ALenticular22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1781Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 145Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 173Barred spiral63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 186ALenticular22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1781Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 145Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 173Barred spiral63 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).