NGC 7650

NGC 7650

NGC 7650 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 158 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 66,000 ly, about 66% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,380 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
158 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,380 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 158 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7650 as it looked roughly 158 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 7676Elliptical5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7657Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7702Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 7796Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 7408Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 5272Spiral23 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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