NGC 7269
NGC 7269
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
450 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7269 as it looked roughly 450 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 1451Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1436Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1439Barred spiral67 million ly
apartNGC 7310Barred spiral75 million ly
apartNGC 7211Lenticular78 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral82 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1436Elliptical53 million ly
apartIC 1439Barred spiral67 million ly
apartNGC 7310Barred spiral75 million ly
apartNGC 7211Lenticular78 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral82 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).