NGC 7652

NGC 7652

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7652 as it looked roughly 470 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 37Lenticular52 million ly
apart
NGC 28Elliptical53 million ly
apart
NGC 25Elliptical53 million ly
apart
NGC 31Spiral54 million ly
apart
IC 5302Lenticular60 million ly
apart
IC 5277Spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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