NGC 7001
NGC 7001
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
331 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 331 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7001 as it looked roughly 331 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 5111Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 6975Spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 6941Barred spiral56 million ly
apartNGC 7065ASpiral57 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 6957Spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6975Spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 6941Barred spiral56 million ly
apartNGC 7065ASpiral57 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 6957Spiral57 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).