NGC 7169

NGC 7169

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
469 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 469 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7169 as it looked roughly 469 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 7119ABarred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 7119BSpiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7061Elliptical66 million ly
apart
IC 5175Spiral88 million ly
apart
IC 5174Barred spiral95 million ly
apart
NGC 7012Elliptical98 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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