NGC 7609 NED01

NGC 7609 NED01 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 565 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 565 million years ago.

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.

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).