NGC 443

NGC 443

NGC 443 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 223 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,897 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
4,897 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 443 as it looked roughly 223 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 449Barred spiral1.8 million ly
apart
IC 1638Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 414 NED01Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 392Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 451Spiral6.7 million ly
apart
IC 1666Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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