NGC 326 NED01

NGC 326 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
669 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
195k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 669 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 326 NED01 as it looked roughly 669 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.

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IC 64Lenticular33 million ly
apart
IC 1676Elliptical73 million ly
apart
IC 115Elliptical130 million ly
apart
NGC 459Barred spiral140 million ly
apart
IC 1646Spiral180 million ly
apart
NGC 218Spiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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