NGC 7495
NGC 7495
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7495 as it looked roughly 228 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 7511Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 7535Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7509Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7570Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5283Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7535Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 7509Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7570Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7536Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5283Spiral14 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).