NGC 511
NGC 511
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
520 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
179k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 520 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 511 as it looked roughly 520 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 1620Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 1645Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1646Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 61Lenticular69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1645Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 1646Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 62Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 75Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 61Lenticular69 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).