NGC 734

NGC 734

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
569 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 569 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 734 as it looked roughly 569 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 1745Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 144Elliptical53 million ly
apart
IC 141Barred spiral59 million ly
apart
NGC 667Lenticular62 million ly
apart
NGC 858Spiral73 million ly
apart
NGC 648Elliptical75 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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