NGC 7703

NGC 7703

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7703 as it looked roughly 186 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 7691Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7722Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7711Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7659Lenticular9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7671Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 7672Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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