NGC 7609 NED02
NGC 7609 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
588 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 588 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7609 NED02 as it looked roughly 588 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
IC 5307Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 7584Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7583Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED01Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7584Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 7579Galaxy15 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7583Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 7609 NED01Elliptical22 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).