NGC 7576

NGC 7576

NGC 7576 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 166 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,571 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
3,571 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7576 as it looked roughly 166 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 7532Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7530Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7534Irregular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7600Elliptical9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7585Lenticular10 million ly
apart
IC 5278Spiral16 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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