NGC 7737

NGC 7737

NGC 7737 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 354 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 354 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7737 as it looked roughly 354 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 7726Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7747Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7765Galaxy11 million ly
apart
NGC 7766Galaxy21 million ly
apart
NGC 7720AElliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 7767Lenticular24 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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