NGC 7469
NGC 7469
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7469 as it looked roughly 222 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 5283Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 7529Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7495Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7615Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7529Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7495Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7591Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7615Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral21 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).