NGC 7720 NED01
NGC 7720 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
424 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 424 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7720 NED01 as it looked roughly 424 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
IC 5342Elliptical7.8 million ly
apartNGC 7740Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7768Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7740Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 7728Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 7718Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7735Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7768Elliptical43 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).