NGC 7464

NGC 7464

NGC 7464 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 14,000 ly, about 14% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,795 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
14k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
1,795 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7464 as it looked roughly 94 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 7454Elliptical1.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7468Elliptical3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7437Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7448Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7465Lenticular8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7497Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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