NGC 7301
NGC 7301
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
341 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 341 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7301 as it looked roughly 341 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 5210Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 5211Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy49 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5211Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy49 million ly
apartIC 1453Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy53 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).