NGC 573
NGC 573
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
15k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 573 as it looked roughly 130 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 620Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 65Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1159Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 865Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 1138Lenticular38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 65Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1159Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 1160Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 865Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 1138Lenticular38 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).