NGC 7459 NED01
NGC 7459 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
573 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
220k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 573 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7459 NED01 as it looked roughly 573 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 7501Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7499Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 5291Galaxy40 million ly
apartNGC 7583Lenticular45 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy49 million ly
apartNGC 7503Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7499Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 5291Galaxy40 million ly
apartNGC 7583Lenticular45 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy49 million ly
apartNGC 7503Elliptical50 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).