NGC 682
NGC 682
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
260 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 682 as it looked roughly 260 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 160Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartIC 149Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 715Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 699Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1758Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 690Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 149Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 715Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 699Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1758Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 690Spiral19 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).