NGC 1576

NGC 1576

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1576 as it looked roughly 222 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 1600Elliptical7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 1610Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1625Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1622Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1568Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1613Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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