NGC 7300
NGC 7300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7300 as it looked roughly 230 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 7298Spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 7255Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7230Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7381Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7255Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1443Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 7230Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7381Spiral33 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).