NGC 7287A
NGC 7287A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
555 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 555 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7287A as it looked roughly 555 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 7287BGalaxy22,000 ly
apartNGC 7294Lenticular87 million ly
apartIC 1433 NED01Lenticular99 million ly
apartNGC 7310Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 1439Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 5124Lenticular120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7294Lenticular87 million ly
apartIC 1433 NED01Lenticular99 million ly
apartNGC 7310Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 1439Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 5124Lenticular120 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).