NGC 7630

NGC 7630

NGC 7630 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 582 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 582 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
582 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 582 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7630 as it looked roughly 582 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
IC 5307Galaxy15 million ly
apart
NGC 7609 NED02Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 7579Galaxy23 million ly
apart
NGC 7609 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apart
NGC 7542Lenticular26 million ly
apart
NGC 7508Spiral28 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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