NGC 7707
NGC 7707
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7707 as it looked roughly 256 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 7618Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1525Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1535Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1534Lenticular36 million ly
apartNGC 7446Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1525Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular36 million ly
apartIC 1535Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1534Lenticular36 million ly
apartNGC 7446Elliptical37 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).