NGC 7271
NGC 7271
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
308 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 308 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7271 as it looked roughly 308 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 7270Spiral2.6 million ly
apartNGC 7275Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 7317Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7337Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7319Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7340Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7275Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 7317Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7337Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7319Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7340Elliptical21 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).