NGC 7425

NGC 7425

NGC 7425 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 340 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 340 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7425 as it looked roughly 340 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 1464AGalaxy15 million ly
apart
IC 1464BGalaxy15 million ly
apart
IC 1456Galaxy19 million ly
apart
IC 1449Galaxy35 million ly
apart
NGC 7596Lenticular38 million ly
apart
NGC 7646Barred spiral40 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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