NGC 7344
NGC 7344
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
342 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 342 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7344 as it looked roughly 342 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 1449Galaxy29 million ly
apartIC 1464BGalaxy45 million ly
apartIC 1464AGalaxy45 million ly
apartNGC 7434Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 7239Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 7367Spiral47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1464BGalaxy45 million ly
apartIC 1464AGalaxy45 million ly
apartNGC 7434Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 7239Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 7367Spiral47 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).