NGC 7681
NGC 7681
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
320 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 320 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7681 as it looked roughly 320 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 7505Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 7698Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 1472Lenticular46 million ly
apartNGC 7551Galaxy47 million ly
apartNGC 7540Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7698Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 1472Lenticular46 million ly
apartNGC 7551Galaxy47 million ly
apartNGC 7540Lenticular48 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral48 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).