NGC 393

NGC 393

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
283 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 283 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 393 as it looked roughly 283 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 1647Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 477Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 425Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 431Lenticular33 million ly
apart
NGC 496Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 513Spiral34 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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