[1][2] Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 11,879 km/s, which corresponds the galaxy to be located 554 million light-years away from Earth (169.7 Mpc).

A SDSS survey image and from the Hubble Space Telescope, showed that NGC 7609 is interacting with nearby galaxy, PGC 71077 (HCG 95C) whose spiral arms is currently being absorbed by the larger entity.

[10] According to another study, it is suggested that a dwarf galaxy might have been created at the tip of the northern tidal tails.

[18] This indicates that UDGs partially overlap with population of nearly dark galaxies found in deep H I surveys.

The results show high abundance of blue UDGs in the HCG 95 field is favored by the poor galaxy cluster environment residing in H I-rich large-scale structures.