NGC 810 NED02
NGC 810 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E?
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 810 NED02 as it looked roughly 345 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 1775Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 840Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 1817 NED01Spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 1755Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 840Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 1817 NED01Spiral43 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).