NGC 7230
NGC 7230
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7230 as it looked roughly 206 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 1440Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7246Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7341Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7349Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7246Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 7341Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7349Barred spiral30 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).