NGC 7513
NGC 7513
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7513 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 7507Elliptical570,000 ly
apartIC 5271Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7314Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1459Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5271Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7314Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7418Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1459Elliptical16 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).