NGC 7729
NGC 7729
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7729 as it looked roughly 244 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 7753Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7760Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7760Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral26 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).