NGC 7249
NGC 7249
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
564 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
159k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 564 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7249 as it looked roughly 564 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 5218Barred spiral53 million ly
apartNGC 7278Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 5213Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 5229Barred spiral66 million ly
apartIC 5230Spiral74 million ly
apartIC 5095Spiral98 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7278Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 5213Spiral56 million ly
apartIC 5229Barred spiral66 million ly
apartIC 5230Spiral74 million ly
apartIC 5095Spiral98 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).