NGC 7783 NED01

NGC 7783 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7783 NED01 as it looked roughly 365 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 7783 NED02Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
IC 1516Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 7811Irregular24 million ly
apart
IC 1517Lenticular28 million ly
apart
NGC 7825Spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 5359Spiral42 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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