NGC 508
NGC 508
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 508 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 494Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 1692Lenticular2.5 million ly
apartIC 1677Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 566Lenticular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 447Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartIC 1679Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1692Lenticular2.5 million ly
apartIC 1677Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 566Lenticular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 447Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartIC 1679Lenticular8.9 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).