NGC 7620
NGC 7620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
446 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 446 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7620 as it looked roughly 446 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 7718Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7487Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 5342Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7487Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 5342Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical44 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).