NGC 7181
NGC 7181
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
368 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 368 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7181 as it looked roughly 368 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 7182Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 1411Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1410Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1403Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 7170Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7239Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1411Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1410Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1403Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 7170Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7239Elliptical29 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).