NGC 7523
NGC 7523
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
556 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
214k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 556 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7523 as it looked roughly 556 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 7525 NED01Elliptical600,000 ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7508Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7467Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7508Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 7467Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular34 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).