NGC 7543
NGC 7543
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7543 as it looked roughly 325 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 1476Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7512Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7473Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7698Lenticular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7512Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7473Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7698Lenticular31 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).