NGC 7628

NGC 7628

NGC 7628 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 195 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,180 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
195 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
4,180 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 195 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7628 as it looked roughly 195 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 7624Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
IC 5315Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 5284Spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 7769Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 7677Spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 7786Elliptical32 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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