NGC 7690
NGC 7690
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7690 as it looked roughly 70 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 7632Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 7531Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7582Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5325Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7590Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7531Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7496ABarred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7582Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 5325Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7590Barred spiral13 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).