NGC 7578A

NGC 7578A

NGC 7578A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 570 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,969 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
11,969 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7578A as it looked roughly 570 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 7578BElliptical3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7602Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 7647Elliptical26 million ly
apart
IC 5300Lenticular35 million ly
apart
IC 5316Galaxy38 million ly
apart
IC 1488Spiral40 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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