NGC 7500
NGC 7500
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
495 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
217k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 495 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7500 as it looked roughly 495 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 7519Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 5305Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7594Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7414Lenticular51 million ly
apartNGC 7575Lenticular54 million ly
apartNGC 7413Elliptical54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5305Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7594Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7414Lenticular51 million ly
apartNGC 7575Lenticular54 million ly
apartNGC 7413Elliptical54 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).