NGC 7814
NGC 7814
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7814 as it looked roughly 49 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 5377Irregular450,000 ly
apartNGC 63Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartNGC 428Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 337ASpiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 63Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartNGC 428Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 337ASpiral24 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral25 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).