NGC 7038
NGC 7038
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
217k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7038 as it looked roughly 232 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
NGC 7014Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartNGC 6987Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6983Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7072Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7060Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6987Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 6983Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7072Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7060Spiral22 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).