NGC 7042
NGC 7042
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7042 as it looked roughly 238 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 7043Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 7068Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7015Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1359Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7028Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7068Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7015Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1359Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7028Spiral24 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).