NGC 7660
NGC 7660
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
266 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 266 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7660 as it looked roughly 266 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 7539Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7729Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5329Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5331Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7753Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7729Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5329Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 5331Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7753Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical36 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).