NGC 7810
NGC 7810
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7810 as it looked roughly 257 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 7803Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 7794Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 5378 NED02Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7794Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 5378 NED02Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral25 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).