NGC 7374
NGC 7374
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7374 as it looked roughly 330 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 7386Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 7387Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7374BElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7348Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7387Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7374BElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7348Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical29 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).