NGC 7832
NGC 7832
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7832 as it looked roughly 289 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 6Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 8Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 12Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 106Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5356Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5351Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 8Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 12Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 106Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 5356Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 5351Elliptical26 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).