NGC 7750

NGC 7750

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
136 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 136 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7750 as it looked roughly 136 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 7757Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7731Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7714Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7732Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7715Irregular10 million ly
apart
NGC 7820Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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