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Galaxy · Lenticular

NGC 7525 NED02

NGC 7525 NED02 is a galaxy in the direction of the constellation Pegasus, 571.3 million light-years away.

TypeLenticular (estimated)
ConstellationPegasus
Distance571.3 million light-years (175.17 Mpc)
Diameter132,600 light-years · 1.5 × the Milky Way
Absolute magnitudemagnitude −21.75
Apparent magnitudemagnitude 14.47
Luminosity2.2 × the Milky Way
Right ascension (J2000)23h 13m 40.5s
Declination (J2000)+14° 01′ 15″
Source2MASS Redshift Survey (Huchra et al. 2012)

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 14.47. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 76° S. North of latitude 76° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in September, the best time to observe it.

Through a telescope from Earth

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out 571 million years ago. At that time the Earth held only single-celled organisms and the first multicellular life. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 10,135.0 billion years.

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