NGC 1495
NGC 1495
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1495 as it looked roughly 60 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 1970Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1448Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1483Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 1494Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 2035Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 1436Spiral9.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1448Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1483Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 1494Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 2035Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 1436Spiral9.6 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).