NGC 7813

NGC 7813

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7813 as it looked roughly 422 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 7808Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 1520Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7776Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 1521Lenticular40 million ly
apart
NGC 61ALenticular64 million ly
apart
NGC 61BLenticular64 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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