NGC 1492
NGC 1492
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1492 as it looked roughly 212 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 2068Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 1288Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1585Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 1906Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1904Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1288Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1585Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 1570Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 1906Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1904Barred spiral38 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).