NGC 7454

NGC 7454

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
93 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 93 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7454 as it looked roughly 93 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 7464Elliptical1.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7468Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7437Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7448Spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7465Lenticular9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7497Spiral14 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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