NGC 7725
NGC 7725
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7725 as it looked roughly 281 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 5356Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 5351Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 7663Irregular20 million ly
apartIC 1505Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7699Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1490Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5351Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 7663Irregular20 million ly
apartIC 1505Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 7699Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1490Spiral32 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).