NGC 7671

NGC 7671

NGC 7671 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 181 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 73,000 ly, about 73% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,128 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
4,128 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7671 as it looked roughly 181 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 7643Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7659Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7683Lenticular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7672Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7593Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7691Barred spiral13 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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