NGC 7041

NGC 7041

NGC 7041 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Indus about 89 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,906 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
1,906 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7041 as it looked roughly 89 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.

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NGC 7144Elliptical9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7145Elliptical9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7155Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 7151Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7049Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 6990Spiral14 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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