NGC 7421
NGC 7421
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7421 as it looked roughly 84 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 1459Elliptical1.3 million ly
apartNGC 7404Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartIC 5271Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 5270Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7404Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartIC 5271Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 7410Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 5270Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7412Barred spiral8.7 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).