NGC 16
NGC 16
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 16 as it looked roughly 143 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 7712Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1596Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7673Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1596Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral35 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).