NGC 7558
NGC 7558
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7558 as it looked roughly 420 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 1461Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 7620Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 7568Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 5276Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 5274Lenticular55 million ly
apartNGC 7474Elliptical58 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7620Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 7568Barred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 5276Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 5274Lenticular55 million ly
apartNGC 7474Elliptical58 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).