NGC 7034

NGC 7034

NGC 7034 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 415 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,903 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
415 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
8,903 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 415 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7034 as it looked roughly 415 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 7033Lenticular8.1 million ly
apart
IC 1394Elliptical54 million ly
apart
NGC 7101Elliptical71 million ly
apart
IC 1360Barred spiral73 million ly
apart
NGC 7138Barred spiral73 million ly
apart
NGC 7085Barred spiral74 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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