NGC 7798

NGC 7798

NGC 7798 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 115 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,662 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
115 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
2,662 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 115 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7798 as it looked roughly 115 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 7817Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
IC 1596Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7465Lenticular30 million ly
apart
NGC 7463Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 7448Spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 7479Barred spiral31 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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