NGC 7730
NGC 7730
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
436 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 436 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7730 as it looked roughly 436 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 7719Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7776Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1520Spiral59 million ly
apartIC 5343Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 5349 NED02Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7776Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1520Spiral59 million ly
apartIC 5343Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 5349 NED02Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular63 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).