NGC 64
NGC 64
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 64 as it looked roughly 345 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 116Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 61BLenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 38Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1556Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 61BLenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 61ALenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 38Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 5Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 1556Barred spiral38 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).