NGC 7716

NGC 7716

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7716 as it looked roughly 122 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 7693Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7710Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7715Irregular7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7667Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7714Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7694Irregular16 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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