NGC 7137
NGC 7137
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
79 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 79 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7137 as it looked roughly 79 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 1420 NED01Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 1420 NED02Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7241Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7280Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1420 NED02Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7241Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7280Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular26 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).