NGC 646 NED01
NGC 646 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
380 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 380 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 646 NED01 as it looked roughly 380 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 646 NED02Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartNGC 813Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 432Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 888Elliptical54 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 215Elliptical74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 813Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 432Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 888Elliptical54 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 215Elliptical74 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).