NGC 7450
NGC 7450
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
149 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 149 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7450 as it looked roughly 149 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 7443Lenticular3.2 million ly
apartNGC 7444Lenticular7.5 million ly
apartIC 5278Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5261Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7392Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7365Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7444Lenticular7.5 million ly
apartIC 5278Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5261Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7392Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7365Elliptical21 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).