NGC 7807
NGC 7807
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
357 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 357 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7807 as it looked roughly 357 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 7821Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7754Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7759Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 1509Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 73Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 66Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7754Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7759Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 1509Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 73Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 66Barred spiral37 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).