NGC 574

NGC 574

NGC 574 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor about 267 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,709 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
267 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
5,709 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 267 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 574 as it looked roughly 267 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 568Elliptical4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 527Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 526ALenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 526BLenticular7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 527BBarred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 1719Lenticular12 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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