NGC 7563
NGC 7563
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7563 as it looked roughly 200 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 7580Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 7515Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 7567Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 7653Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7593Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7559BElliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7515Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 7567Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 7653Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7593Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7559BElliptical13 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).