NGC 7263
NGC 7263
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7263 as it looked roughly 288 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 7276Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7240Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7274Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 5191Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5180Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7240Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7274Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7315Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 5191Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 5180Elliptical19 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).