NGC 454 NED02
NGC 454 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 454 NED02 as it looked roughly 170 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 454 NED01Elliptical340,000 ly
apartNGC 576Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 87Irregular31 million ly
apartNGC 88Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 92Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7796Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 576Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 87Irregular31 million ly
apartNGC 88Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 92Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7796Elliptical33 million ly
apart
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).