NGC 7539
NGC 7539
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7539 as it looked roughly 282 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
IC 5285Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7489Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5282Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7660Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 5329Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5331Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7489Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5282Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7660Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 5329Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5331Spiral29 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).