NGC 7232B
NGC 7232B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
101 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 101 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7232B as it looked roughly 101 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 5181Lenticular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 7162ASpiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7162Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 7307Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7232ABarred spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7162ASpiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7162Spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 7307Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7107Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7232ABarred spiral11 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).