NGC 7552
NGC 7552
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
76 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 76 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7552 as it looked roughly 76 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 7590Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 7531Spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral1.9 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 7582Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 7496Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7531Spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 7599Barred spiral1.9 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 7582Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 7496Barred spiral2.4 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).