NGC 7085

NGC 7085

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
404 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 404 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7085 as it looked roughly 404 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 7101Elliptical21 million ly
apart
IC 1377Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 1360Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
NGC 7132Spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 1407Elliptical41 million ly
apart
NGC 7149Elliptical42 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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