NGC 7603
NGC 7603
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
454 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 454 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7603 as it looked roughly 454 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 5287Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7629Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 1466Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7629Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7589Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 7642Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1468Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 1466Spiral41 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).