NGC 7718
NGC 7718
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7718 as it looked roughly 440 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 7735Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 5342Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7620Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7728Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 5342Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 7720 NED01Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 7620Spiral34 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).