NGC 7811

NGC 7811

NGC 7811 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 356 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 40,000 ly, about 40% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,641 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Irregular
type · I
356 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
7,641 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 356 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7811 as it looked roughly 356 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 7825Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 7783 NED01Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 7783 NED02Elliptical28 million ly
apart
IC 1516Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 1517Lenticular31 million ly
apart
IC 1527Spiral45 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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