NGC 7602

NGC 7602

NGC 7602 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 550 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 11,610 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
11,610 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7602 as it looked roughly 550 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.

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NGC 7578BElliptical23 million ly
apart
NGC 7571Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 5316Galaxy26 million ly
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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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