NGC 7673

NGC 7673

NGC 7673 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 158 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,379 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
158 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,379 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 158 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7673 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 7678Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7664Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7677Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7712Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 5284Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 16Elliptical31 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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