NGC 7622

NGC 7622

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
369 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 369 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7622 as it looked roughly 369 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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apart
IC 5238Spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 5197Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
IC 5190Barred spiral54 million ly
apart
IC 5382Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
IC 5288Lenticular56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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