NGC 7222
NGC 7222
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
579 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
180k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 579 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7222 as it looked roughly 579 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 1428Galaxy18 million ly
apartIC 1446Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 1399Galaxy71 million ly
apartIC 1380Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 7346Elliptical120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1446Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 1399Galaxy71 million ly
apartIC 1380Galaxy110 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy120 million ly
apartNGC 7346Elliptical120 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).