NGC 7606
NGC 7606
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
105 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 105 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7606 as it looked roughly 105 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 5334Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7695Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7694Irregular13 million ly
apartNGC 7721Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7724Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7723Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7695Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7694Irregular13 million ly
apartNGC 7721Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7724Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7723Barred spiral20 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).