NGC 7611

NGC 7611

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7611 as it looked roughly 155 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 7626Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7612Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7634Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7608Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7648Lenticular9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7562ASpiral9.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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