NGC 7035A

NGC 7035A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7035A as it looked roughly 440 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 7030Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 7104Elliptical53 million ly
apart
NGC 7103Elliptical54 million ly
apart
IC 1393Lenticular55 million ly
apart
IC 1337Spiral56 million ly
apart
IC 1358Galaxy57 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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