NGC 7507
NGC 7507
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
10.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7507 as it looked roughly 73 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 7513Barred spiral570,000 ly
apartIC 5271Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7314Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1459Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5271Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7314Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1459Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7Spiral16 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).