NGC 727
NGC 727
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
469 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 469 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 727 as it looked roughly 469 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 1760Spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 623Elliptical59 million ly
apartNGC 612Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 572Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1728Barred spiral66 million ly
apartIC 1739Barred spiral67 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 623Elliptical59 million ly
apartNGC 612Lenticular60 million ly
apartNGC 572Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1728Barred spiral66 million ly
apartIC 1739Barred spiral67 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).