NGC 1028
NGC 1028
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1028 as it looked roughly 400 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 1855Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 1112Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1115Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1109Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 927Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 1111Lenticular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1112Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1115Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1109Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 927Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 1111Lenticular31 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).