NGC 7410

NGC 7410

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7410 as it looked roughly 78 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 7412Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
IC 5267Lenticular5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7496Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7421Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7552Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7599Barred spiral7.2 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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