NGC 7479

NGC 7479

NGC 7479 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,394 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
2,394 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7479 as it looked roughly 111 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 7465Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 7448Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7463Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7437Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7347Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7468Elliptical15 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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