NGC 7506

NGC 7506

NGC 7506 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 181 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 66,000 ly, about 66% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,901 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
3,901 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7506 as it looked roughly 181 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.

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apart
NGC 7576Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 7534Irregular19 million ly
apart
NGC 7393Barred spiral20 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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