NGC 7460
NGC 7460
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7460 as it looked roughly 150 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 7428Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7391Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1474Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7537Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7518Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7611Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7391Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1474Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7537Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7518Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7611Lenticular20 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).