NGC 7558

NGC 7558

NGC 7558 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 420 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,807 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
8,807 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7558 as it looked roughly 420 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 7620Spiral49 million ly
apart
NGC 7568Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
IC 5276Lenticular50 million ly
apart
IC 5274Lenticular55 million ly
apart
NGC 7474Elliptical58 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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