NGC 7540
NGC 7540
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7540 as it looked roughly 363 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 7551Galaxy1.2 million ly
apartIC 1472Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7627Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 7639Elliptical35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1472Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7627Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 7639Elliptical35 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).