NGC 7674

NGC 7674

NGC 7674 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 411 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,662 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
411 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
8,662 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 411 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7674 as it looked roughly 411 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 7675Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7587Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7528Galaxy26 million ly
apart
NGC 7601Spiral41 million ly
apart
NGC 7639Elliptical41 million ly
apart
NGC 7586Galaxy42 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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