NGC 459
NGC 459
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
592 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 592 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 459 as it looked roughly 592 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
IC 115Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 1646Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1645Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1620Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral76 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral90 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1646Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1645Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1620Barred spiral73 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral76 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral90 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).