NGC 7728
NGC 7728
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
438 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 438 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7728 as it looked roughly 438 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 5342Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7620Spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7718Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7620Spiral42 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).