NGC 7061
NGC 7061
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
200k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7061 as it looked roughly 422 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 7012Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 7119BSpiral44 million ly
apartNGC 7119ABarred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 7169Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7004Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 5110Spiral80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7119BSpiral44 million ly
apartNGC 7119ABarred spiral55 million ly
apartNGC 7169Elliptical66 million ly
apartNGC 7004Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 5110Spiral80 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).