NGC 190 NED02
NGC 190 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
595 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 595 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 190 NED02 as it looked roughly 595 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 190 NED01Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1568Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 240Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1551Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1568Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 240Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1551Barred spiral39 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).