NGC 7308
NGC 7308
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7308 as it looked roughly 363 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 1453Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy33 million ly
apartNGC 7301Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy37 million ly
apartNGC 7425Lenticular43 million ly
apartIC 5211Spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1456Galaxy33 million ly
apartNGC 7301Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy37 million ly
apartNGC 7425Lenticular43 million ly
apartIC 5211Spiral45 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).