IC 7
IC 7
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 7 as it looked roughly 250 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 95Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 137Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 105Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 34Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 13Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 137Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 105Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 34Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 13Barred spiral20 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).