NGC 7814

NGC 7814

NGC 7814 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 49 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,042 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
1,042 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7814 as it looked roughly 49 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.

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apart
NGC 428Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 7332Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 337ASpiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 7339Spiral25 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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