NGC 7401
NGC 7401
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7401 as it looked roughly 230 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 7396Spiral690,000 ly
apartIC 1455Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 7458Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartNGC 7397Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 7398Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7364Lenticular11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1455Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 7458Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartNGC 7397Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 7398Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7364Lenticular11 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).