NGC 7280
NGC 7280
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
86 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 86 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7280 as it looked roughly 86 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 7454Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 7464Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1420 NED01Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7497Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7137Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7437Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7464Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1420 NED01Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7497Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 7137Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7437Spiral18 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).