NGC 7699
NGC 7699
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7699 as it looked roughly 255 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 1492Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartIC 1501Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7701Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1496Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1498Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7700Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1501Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7701Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1496Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 1498Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7700Lenticular16 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).