NGC 7716

NGC 7716

NGC 7716 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 65,000 ly, about 65% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,541 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
2,541 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7716 as it looked roughly 122 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 7693Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7710Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7715Irregular7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7667Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7714Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7694Irregular16 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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