NGC 7165
NGC 7165
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7165 as it looked roughly 244 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 1412Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1408Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 1417Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7131Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7255Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1408Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 1417Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7131Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7255Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral26 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).