NGC 57

NGC 57

NGC 57 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 253 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 5,440 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
253 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
5,440 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 253 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 57 as it looked roughly 253 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 52Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 99Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 4Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 109Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 93Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 90Spiral23 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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