NGC 487
NGC 487
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
276 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 487 as it looked roughly 276 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 1670BLenticular5.1 million ly
apartIC 93Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular19 million ly
apartNGC 594Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1714Galaxy25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 93Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 1670ABarred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular19 million ly
apartNGC 594Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1714Galaxy25 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).