NGC 471

NGC 471

NGC 471 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,138 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
4,138 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 471 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 469Spiral460,000 ly
apart
IC 1702Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 1715Irregular14 million ly
apart
IC 1721Barred spiral29 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). 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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