NGC 7242 NED01
NGC 7242 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7242 NED01 as it looked roughly 265 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 5193Elliptical2.7 million ly
apartNGC 7274Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 5180Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7240Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7276Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1441Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7274Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 5180Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7240Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7276Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 1441Barred spiral20 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).