NGC 7624
NGC 7624
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7624 as it looked roughly 199 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 7628Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartIC 5315Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7786Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7769Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7770Lenticular36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5315Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7786Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 7769Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7770Lenticular36 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).