NGC 7511

NGC 7511

NGC 7511 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 229 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 229 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7511 as it looked roughly 229 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 7535Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7509Elliptical4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7495Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7570Spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7536Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 5292Spiral15 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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