NGC 466

NGC 466

NGC 466 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 245 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,311 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
5,311 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 466 as it looked roughly 245 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 484Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 440Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 1649Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1597Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 434Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 434ALenticular24 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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