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
apart
NGC 7097Elliptical7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7107Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7162Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7166Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7162ASpiral11 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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