NGC 7231
NGC 7231
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
24k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7231 as it looked roughly 49 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 7250Spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7177Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6951Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5377Irregular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7332Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7177Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6951Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 5377Irregular31 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).