NGC 7389

NGC 7389

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
368 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 368 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7389 as it looked roughly 368 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 7385Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7383Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7390Galaxy6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7432Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 7374BElliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 7362Elliptical24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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