NGC 7600

NGC 7600

NGC 7600 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 161 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,504 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
161 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
3,504 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 161 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7600 as it looked roughly 161 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 7585Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7576Lenticular9.6 million ly
apart
IC 5278Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7534Irregular14 million ly
apart
NGC 7530Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 7532Lenticular15 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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