NGC 7466
NGC 7466
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7466 as it looked roughly 352 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 7433Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 7436ABarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy27 million ly
apartNGC 7548Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7436ABarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy27 million ly
apartNGC 7548Lenticular28 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).