NGC 7609 NED01
NGC 7609 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
565 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
192k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 565 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7609 NED01 as it looked roughly 565 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 7579Galaxy9.5 million ly
apartIC 5307Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 5291Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED02Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5307Galaxy14 million ly
apartIC 5291Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7542Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED02Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).