NGC 7020
NGC 7020
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
168k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7020 as it looked roughly 141 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 5096Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartIC 5084Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7083Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5092Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5084Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7083Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 7032Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 5092Barred spiral11 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).