NGC 7138
NGC 7138
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
392 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 392 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7138 as it looked roughly 392 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 7132Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7194Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1394Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7101Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1414Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 7190Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7194Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 1394Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7101Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 1414Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 7190Lenticular34 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).