NGC 525
NGC 525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 525 as it looked roughly 100 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 509Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartIC 114Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 532Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 485Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 490Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 488Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 114Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 532Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 485Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 490Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 488Barred spiral10 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).