NGC 505
NGC 505
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 505 as it looked roughly 258 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 112Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 437Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 569Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1723Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 631Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 652Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 437Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 569Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1723Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 631Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 652Spiral24 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).