NGC 7516
NGC 7516
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7516 as it looked roughly 233 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 7547Spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 7550Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7553Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7549Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7509Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7511Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7550Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 7553Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7549Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7509Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 7511Barred spiral27 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).