NGC 560

NGC 560

NGC 560 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 255 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,483 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
5,483 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 560 as it looked roughly 255 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 547Elliptical3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 541Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 548Elliptical5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 570Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 557Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 545Elliptical7.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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