NGC 7689

NGC 7689

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
10.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7689 as it looked roughly 92 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.

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apart
IC 5240Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 5224Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 5267Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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