NGC 7769

NGC 7769

NGC 7769 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 194 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,266 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
194 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
4,266 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 194 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7769 as it looked roughly 194 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 7770Lenticular8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7786Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 7722Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 7703Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 7711Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 7691Barred spiral22 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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