NGC 7167
NGC 7167
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7167 as it looked roughly 120 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 7184Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 7247Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 1438Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7208Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7183Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 7204ABarred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7247Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 1438Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7208Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 7183Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 7204ABarred spiral14 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).