NGC 633
NGC 633
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 633 as it looked roughly 240 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 597Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1734Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 527BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 626Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1734Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 527BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 568Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 526BLenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 626Spiral28 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).