NGC 7069
NGC 7069
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7069 as it looked roughly 433 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 1381Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 1388Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1391Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1388Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1383Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1391Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1371Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 5090Spiral31 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).