NGC 7660

NGC 7660

NGC 7660 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 266 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,694 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
266 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
5,694 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 266 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7660 as it looked roughly 266 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 7539Lenticular26 million ly
apart
NGC 7729Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 5329Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 5331Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7753Spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 7680Elliptical36 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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