NGC 7070A
NGC 7070A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7070A as it looked roughly 110 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 7070Spiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 7097Elliptical7.0 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7162Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7166Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7162ASpiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7097Elliptical7.0 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7162Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7166Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7162ASpiral11 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).