NGC 7448

NGC 7448

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7448 as it looked roughly 102 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 7465Lenticular1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7437Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7468Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7464Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7454Elliptical9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7479Barred spiral11 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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