NGC 7096A
NGC 7096A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7096A as it looked roughly 155 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 5092Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 7083Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 5096Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5154Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7083Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 5096Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5154Spiral13 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).