NGC 1473
NGC 1473
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IB
65 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 65 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1473 as it looked roughly 65 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
NGC 1511BBarred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 1511Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 1511ABarred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1559Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 1809Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 1892Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1511Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 1511ABarred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1559Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 1809Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 1892Spiral11 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).