NGC 7661
NGC 7661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
95 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 95 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7661 as it looked roughly 95 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 7697Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 1532Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5249Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5176Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 360Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1532Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5249Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 5176Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 360Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
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).