NGC 7053
NGC 7053
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7053 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
IC 5104Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 7052Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 7080Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5119Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7028Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7052Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 7080Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5119Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7028Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7025Spiral30 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).