NGC 410

NGC 410

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
170k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 410 as it looked roughly 246 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 399Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 382Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
IC 1652Lenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 472Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 388Elliptical9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 383Elliptical9.6 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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