NGC 7624

NGC 7624

NGC 7624 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 199 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,500 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
4,500 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7624 as it looked roughly 199 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 7628Elliptical6.3 million ly
apart
IC 5315Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 5284Spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 7786Elliptical34 million ly
apart
NGC 7769Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
NGC 7770Lenticular36 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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