NGC 7712
NGC 7712
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7712 as it looked roughly 142 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 7673Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 16Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 16Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral31 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).