NGC 7758
NGC 7758
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
610 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 610 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7758 as it looked roughly 610 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 9Spiral110 million ly
apartNGC 7749Lenticular140 million ly
apartIC 1581Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 5289 NED02Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 276Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 1600Barred spiral170 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7749Lenticular140 million ly
apartIC 1581Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 5289 NED02Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 276Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 1600Barred spiral170 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).