NGC 7149
NGC 7149
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7149 as it looked roughly 401 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 1407Elliptical3.4 million ly
apartNGC 7146Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 5151Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 1406Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1418Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1423Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7146Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 5151Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 1406Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1418Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1423Barred spiral29 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).