NGC 7626

NGC 7626

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
159 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 159 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7626 as it looked roughly 159 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 7608Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7611Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7648Lenticular5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7562ASpiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7610Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7612Lenticular9.3 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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