NGC 7091
NGC 7091
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7091 as it looked roughly 120 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 5131Elliptical7.1 million ly
apartNGC 7135Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7154Irregular10 million ly
apartNGC 7097AElliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7097Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7187Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7135Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7154Irregular10 million ly
apartNGC 7097AElliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7097Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7187Lenticular16 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).