NGC 469

NGC 469

NGC 469 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 192 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · S?
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 469 as it looked roughly 192 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 471Lenticular460,000 ly
apart
IC 1702Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 1715Irregular14 million ly
apart
IC 1721Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
IC 1725Spiral32 million ly
apart
NGC 234Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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