NGC 7189
NGC 7189
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7189 as it looked roughly 420 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 1422Galaxy26 million ly
apartIC 1437Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7147Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7146Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1425Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 1407Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1437Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7147Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7146Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1425Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 1407Elliptical33 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).