NGC 7601

NGC 7601

NGC 7601 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 374 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,205 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
374 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
8,205 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 374 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7601 as it looked roughly 374 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 7586Galaxy4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7639Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 7627Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 5306Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 7455Galaxy35 million ly
apart
NGC 7587Barred spiral35 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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