NGC 7052

NGC 7052

NGC 7052 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Vulpecula about 221 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,920 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
4,920 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7052 as it looked roughly 221 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 7080Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7053Lenticular17 million ly
apart
IC 5104Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 7028Spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 5119Spiral35 million ly
apart
IC 1392Elliptical40 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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