NGC 7010
NGC 7010
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
254k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7010 as it looked roughly 401 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 1355Galaxy9.0 million ly
apartIC 1353Galaxy11 million ly
apartIC 1348Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 1347Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1353Galaxy11 million ly
apartIC 1348Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 1347Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy15 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).