NGC 7568

NGC 7568

NGC 7568 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 392 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,439 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
392 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
8,439 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 392 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7568 as it looked roughly 392 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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IC 5298Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 5297Galaxy14 million ly
apart
IC 5295Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 5296Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7527Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 7548Lenticular22 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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