NGC 7436A
NGC 7436A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
359 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 359 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7436A as it looked roughly 359 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 7433Barred spiral550,000 ly
apartNGC 7466Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical15 million ly
apartIC 5258Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7466Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7436BElliptical15 million ly
apartIC 5258Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7435Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 5293Galaxy27 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).