NGC 7775

NGC 7775

NGC 7775 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 314 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,685 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
314 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
6,685 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 314 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7775 as it looked roughly 314 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 7777Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 27Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 69Elliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 71Elliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 72AElliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 72Spiral34 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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