NGC 7303
NGC 7303
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
168 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 168 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7303 as it looked roughly 168 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 7116Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7264Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7264Barred spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral44 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).