NGC 7126
NGC 7126
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7126 as it looked roughly 140 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 7125Spiral530,000 ly
apartNGC 7096Spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 7179Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 7083Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7191Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7192Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7096Spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 7179Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 7083Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7191Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7192Elliptical11 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).