NGC 7140
NGC 7140
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7140 as it looked roughly 139 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 7126Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7125Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7168Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7196Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7200Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 7106Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7125Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7168Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7196Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7200Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 7106Spiral16 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).