NGC 7393
NGC 7393
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
176 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 176 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7393 as it looked roughly 176 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 5278Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1467Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7506Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7532Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7576Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7530Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1467Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7506Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7532Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7576Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 7530Lenticular22 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).