NGC 7634

NGC 7634

NGC 7634 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 149 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,225 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
149 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
3,225 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 149 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7634 as it looked roughly 149 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 7612Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7611Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7626Elliptical9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7648Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 7608Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7562ASpiral16 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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