NGC 527B
NGC 527B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 527B 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
NGC 526BLenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 527Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 574Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 461Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 568Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartNGC 526ALenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 527Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 574Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 461Spiral13 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).