NGC 450

NGC 450

NGC 450 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 82 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,858 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
1,858 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 450 as it looked roughly 82 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 448Lenticular7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 584Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 127Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 298Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 337Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 596Elliptical12 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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