NGC 534

NGC 534

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
271 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 271 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 534 as it looked roughly 271 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 544Elliptical8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 626Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 574Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 568Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 527Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 549Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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