NGC 671
NGC 671
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 671 as it looked roughly 256 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
IC 154Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 665Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 161Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 156Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 675Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 683Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 665Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 161Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 156Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 675Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 683Barred spiral14 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).