NGC 7130
NGC 7130
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7130 as it looked roughly 224 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 5128Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 5157Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7109Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7110Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7201Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5186Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5157Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7109Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7110Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7201Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5186Barred spiral27 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).