NGC 7060
NGC 7060
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7060 as it looked roughly 225 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 7072Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7072ASpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7057Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 5128Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7087Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7038Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7072ASpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7057Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 5128Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 7087Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7038Spiral22 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).