NGC 7606

NGC 7606

NGC 7606 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 105 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,232 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
105 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
2,232 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 105 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7606 as it looked roughly 105 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 7721Spiral14 million ly
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NGC 7724Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 7723Barred spiral20 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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