NGC 7162A
NGC 7162A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7162A as it looked roughly 106 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 7162Spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 7166Elliptical7.1 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 7232BBarred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7232ABarred spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 7070ALenticular11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7166Elliptical7.1 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 7232BBarred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7232ABarred spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 7070ALenticular11 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).