NGC 1666
NGC 1666
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1666 as it looked roughly 129 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 1681Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 1665Lenticular2.7 million ly
apartNGC 1677Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 2095Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2098Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1665Lenticular2.7 million ly
apartNGC 1677Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 2095Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 2098Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral18 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).