NGC 7495

NGC 7495

NGC 7495 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,893 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
4,893 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7495 as it looked roughly 228 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 7511Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7535Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7509Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7570Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7536Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 5283Spiral14 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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