NGC 7579

NGC 7579

NGC 7579 is a galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 574 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 12,310 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Galaxy
morphology
574 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
12,310 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 574 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7579 as it looked roughly 574 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
IC 5307Galaxy8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7609 NED01Elliptical9.5 million ly
apart
IC 5291Galaxy11 million ly
apart
NGC 7609 NED02Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7542Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 7630Barred spiral23 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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