NGC 7321
NGC 7321
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
335 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 335 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7321 as it looked roughly 335 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 5242Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5243Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5253Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5254Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7375Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5243Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5253Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5254Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7375Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 5231Lenticular22 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).