NGC 7081
NGC 7081
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
152 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 152 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7081 as it looked roughly 152 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 7074Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 6959Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 1361Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1368Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7156Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6961Elliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6959Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 1361Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1368Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 7156Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 6961Elliptical38 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).