NGC 570

NGC 570

NGC 570 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 258 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,493 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
5,493 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 570 as it looked roughly 258 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 547Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 560Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 557Lenticular5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 585Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 541Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 548Elliptical6.8 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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