NGC 7057

NGC 7057

NGC 7057 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Microscopium about 238 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,133 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
5,133 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7057 as it looked roughly 238 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 7072ASpiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7072Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7087Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7060Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 5105Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 7038Spiral22 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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