NGC 7803
NGC 7803
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7803 as it looked roughly 249 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 7810Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 7794Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7782Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7794Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7834Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7782Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 57Elliptical24 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).