NGC 7469

NGC 7469

NGC 7469 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 222 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,846 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
4,846 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7469 as it looked roughly 222 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 5283Spiral2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7529Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7495Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7591Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 7615Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 7536Barred spiral21 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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