NGC 7425
NGC 7425
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7425 as it looked roughly 340 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 1464AGalaxy15 million ly
apartIC 1464BGalaxy15 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy35 million ly
apartNGC 7596Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 7646Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1464BGalaxy15 million ly
apartIC 1456Galaxy19 million ly
apartIC 1449Galaxy35 million ly
apartNGC 7596Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 7646Barred spiral40 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).