NGC 7251
NGC 7251
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7251 as it looked roughly 229 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 7255Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 7300Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7298Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7230Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7165Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7300Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7298Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7230Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7165Spiral26 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).