NGC 7753
NGC 7753
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
242 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 242 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7753 as it looked roughly 242 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 7729Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7760Elliptical8.1 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7760Elliptical8.1 million ly
apartNGC 7752Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7819Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 5355Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7680Elliptical21 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).