NGC 7733
NGC 7733
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
475 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
174k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 475 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7733 as it looked roughly 475 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 7734Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5277Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5302Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 5221Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 7652Spiral69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5277Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 5302Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 5221Spiral68 million ly
apartIC 5382Barred spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 7652Spiral69 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).