NGC 7612

NGC 7612

NGC 7612 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 150 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,210 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,210 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7612 as it looked roughly 150 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 7634Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7611Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7626Elliptical9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7648Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 7608Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7562ASpiral15 million ly
apart
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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