NGC 7395

NGC 7395

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
263 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 263 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7395 as it looked roughly 263 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 5259Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7440Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7446Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 7426Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 7379Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7485Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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