Sculptor Galaxy
NGC 253
A dusty, edge-on starburst spiral, one of the brightest galaxies in the sky beyond our Local Group.
Starburst
type · SABc
11 million ly
from Earth · measured
90k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 11 million ly from home, you are seeing Sculptor as it looked roughly 11 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us.
Nearest galaxies
TriangulumSpiral10 million ly
apartAndromedaSpiral11 million ly
apartSmall Magellanic CloudIrregular11 million ly
apartLarge Magellanic CloudIrregular11 million ly
apartMilky WayBarred spiral11 million ly
apartCentaurus AElliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartAndromedaSpiral11 million ly
apartSmall Magellanic CloudIrregular11 million ly
apartLarge Magellanic CloudIrregular11 million ly
apartMilky WayBarred spiral11 million ly
apartCentaurus AElliptical19 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance from published measurements.