NGC 367
NGC 367
NGC 367 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 363 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 363 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 367 as it looked roughly 363 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 355Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 76Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 567Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 301Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 154Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 263Barred spiral51 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 76Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 567Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 301Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 154Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 263Barred spiral51 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).