NGC 7132
NGC 7132
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
387 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 387 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7132 as it looked roughly 387 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 7138Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7101Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1414Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7194Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5161Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7195Lenticular36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7101Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1414Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7194Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 5161Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 7195Lenticular36 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).