NGC 7417
NGC 7417
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7417 as it looked roughly 150 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 5272Spiral910,000 ly
apartIC 5266Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular2.9 million ly
apartIC 5246Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical5.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5266Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 5250BLenticular2.9 million ly
apartIC 5246Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 5245Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartIC 5250AElliptical5.1 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).