NGC 7422

NGC 7422

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7422 as it looked roughly 224 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 1455Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7480Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 7483Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7373Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 7398Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7397Lenticular12 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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