NGC 7563

NGC 7563

NGC 7563 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 200 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,315 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
4,315 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7563 as it looked roughly 200 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 7580Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7515Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7567Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7653Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7593Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7559BElliptical13 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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