NGC 7664

NGC 7664

NGC 7664 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 162 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 72,000 ly, about 72% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,447 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
162 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
3,447 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 162 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7664 as it looked roughly 162 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 7677Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7673Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7678Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7712Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 5284Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 16Elliptical33 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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