NGC 7673
NGC 7673
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
158 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 158 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7673 as it looked roughly 158 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 7678Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 7664Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 16Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7664Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 7677Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7712Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 5284Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 16Elliptical31 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).