NGC 7121
NGC 7121
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7121 as it looked roughly 389 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
IC 1403Galaxy12 million ly
apartIC 1410Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1411Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 7170Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7182Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 7181Lenticular36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1410Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 1411Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 7170Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7182Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 7181Lenticular36 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).