NGC 1719
NGC 1719
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
194 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 194 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1719 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
NGC 1717Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 1740Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1683Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1741Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1713Elliptical15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1740Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 1741BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1683Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1741Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 1713Elliptical15 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).