NGC 702 NED02

NGC 702 NED02

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
506 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 506 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 702 NED02 as it looked roughly 506 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 204Spiral64 million ly
apart
IC 109Lenticular91 million ly
apart
IC 105Lenticular91 million ly
apart
NGC 617Spiral93 million ly
apart
IC 1779Galaxy93 million ly
apart
IC 103Elliptical96 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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