NGC 7361
NGC 7361
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7361 as it looked roughly 58 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 5273Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 7314Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 7456Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7462Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7513Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7314Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 7456Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7462Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7513Barred spiral17 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).