NGC 7664
NGC 7664
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
162 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 162 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7664 as it looked roughly 162 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 7677Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 7673Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 16Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7673Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 7678Spiral7.7 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 16Elliptical33 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).