NGC 1636
NGC 1636
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
194 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 194 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1636 as it looked roughly 194 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 385Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartIC 2080Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 1720Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 1599Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2080Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1594Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 1720Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 1599Barred spiral16 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).