NGC 7630
NGC 7630
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
582 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 582 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7630 as it looked roughly 582 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 5307Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED02Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy23 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7508Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7609 NED02Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy23 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 7508Spiral28 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).