NGC 1687
NGC 1687
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1687 as it looked roughly 255 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 1701Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2106Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 1540Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1540ASpiral43 million ly
apartIC 2122Elliptical46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2106Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 1540Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1540ASpiral43 million ly
apartIC 2122Elliptical46 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).