NGC 280
NGC 280
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
473 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 473 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 280 as it looked roughly 473 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 606Spiral84 million ly
apartIC 1645Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 31Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 5367Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1646Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1701Elliptical110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1645Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 31Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 5367Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1646Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 1701Elliptical110 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).