NGC 7268 NED01
NGC 7268 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
402 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 402 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7268 NED01 as it looked roughly 402 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 7262Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7289Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7279Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 5262Lenticular48 million ly
apartIC 5209Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5212Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7289Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7279Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 5262Lenticular48 million ly
apartIC 5209Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5212Barred spiral49 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).