NGC 7484
NGC 7484
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7484 as it looked roughly 128 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 7476Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7713ASpiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7368Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7400Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7755Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7744Elliptical27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7713ASpiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7368Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7400Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7755Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7744Elliptical27 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).