NGC 7400
NGC 7400
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7400 as it looked roughly 140 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 7476Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 5328Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 5171Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7200Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7744Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7196Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5328Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 5171Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7200Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7744Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 7196Elliptical23 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).