NGC 448

NGC 448

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 448 as it looked roughly 89 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 450Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
IC 127Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 586Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 584Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 596Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 600Spiral11 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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