NGC 7782
NGC 7782
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
176k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7782 as it looked roughly 249 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 7778Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 7780Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 7781Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 7802Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7779Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7816Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7780Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 7781Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 7802Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7779Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7816Barred spiral12 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).