NGC 467

NGC 467

NGC 467 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 256 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,495 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
5,495 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 467 as it looked roughly 256 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 446Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 533Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 479Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 455Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 437Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 430Elliptical18 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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