NGC 7204A
NGC 7204A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
121 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
33k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7204A as it looked roughly 121 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 7204BLenticular11,000 ly
apartNGC 7172Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 7176Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7208Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 7187Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 7173Elliptical5.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7172Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 7176Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 7208Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 7187Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 7173Elliptical5.8 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).