NGC 7119A
NGC 7119A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7119A as it looked roughly 468 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 7119BSpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7169Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7061Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 7012Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 5175Spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral92 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7169Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7061Elliptical55 million ly
apartNGC 7012Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 5175Spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 7178Spiral92 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).