NGC 696
NGC 696
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
375 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
196k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 375 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 696 as it looked roughly 375 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 698Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1739Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 619Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1728Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 623Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 612Lenticular50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1739Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 619Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1728Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 623Elliptical48 million ly
apartNGC 612Lenticular50 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).