NGC 550
NGC 550
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
273 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 273 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 550 as it looked roughly 273 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 533Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1696Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1693Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 564Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 119Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 467Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1696Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1693Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 564Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 119Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 467Lenticular20 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).