NGC 562
NGC 562
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
478 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 478 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 562 as it looked roughly 478 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
IC 256Elliptical120 million ly
apartIC 260Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 218Spiral130 million ly
apartIC 275 NED02Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 1077BBarred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 1733Elliptical140 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 260Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 218Spiral130 million ly
apartIC 275 NED02Elliptical130 million ly
apartNGC 1077BBarred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 1733Elliptical140 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).