NGC 230
NGC 230
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 230 as it looked roughly 319 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 235BElliptical950,000 ly
apartNGC 232Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 1578Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 1579Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 232Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 1578Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 1579Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral35 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).