NGC 7320C
NGC 7320C
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
279 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 279 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7320C as it looked roughly 279 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 7318BBarred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 7276Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7274Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7335Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7340Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7276Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7274Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7335Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 7340Elliptical19 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).