NGC 7465

NGC 7465

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
103 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 103 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7465 as it looked roughly 103 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 7448Spiral1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7437Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7468Elliptical5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7464Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7454Elliptical9.7 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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