NGC 7649
NGC 7649
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
581 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
276k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 581 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7649 as it looked roughly 581 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 1488Spiral9.5 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7647Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy28 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 7647Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy28 million ly
apartNGC 7630Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
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).