NGC 7578A
NGC 7578A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7578A as it looked roughly 570 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 7578BElliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 7602Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7647Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 5300Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 5316Galaxy38 million ly
apartIC 1488Spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7602Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 7647Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 5300Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 5316Galaxy38 million ly
apartIC 1488Spiral40 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).