NGC 7647
NGC 7647
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
575 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
303k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 575 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7647 as it looked roughly 575 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 1488Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7649Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7578BElliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7578ALenticular26 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7649Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7578BElliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7578ALenticular26 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical34 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).