NGC 710

NGC 710

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 710 as it looked roughly 285 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 732Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 801Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 662Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 703Elliptical25 million ly
apart
NGC 721Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 513Spiral33 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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