NGC 7783 NED02

NGC 7783 NED02

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
372 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 372 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7783 NED02 as it looked roughly 372 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 7783 NED01Lenticular6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7811Irregular28 million ly
apart
IC 1516Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
IC 1517Lenticular35 million ly
apart
NGC 7825Spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 1527Spiral40 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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