NGC 7015
NGC 7015
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7015 as it looked roughly 227 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 1359Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 7043Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7042Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6988Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7043Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7042Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6988Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6956Barred spiral23 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).