NGC 692

NGC 692

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 692 as it looked roughly 299 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 641Elliptical33 million ly
apart
NGC 644Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 1625Elliptical42 million ly
apart
IC 1627Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
IC 1674Barred spiral43 million ly
apart
NGC 754Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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