NGC 7625
NGC 7625
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7625 as it looked roughly 75 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 7497Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 7742Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7743Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7800Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7454Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7742Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7743Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7800Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7454Elliptical19 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).