NGC 7267
NGC 7267
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7267 as it looked roughly 160 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 5179Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 5169Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7306Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7258Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7277Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7359Lenticular30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5169Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7306Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7258Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7277Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 7359Lenticular30 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).