NGC 7069

NGC 7069

NGC 7069 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 433 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 433 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
433 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 433 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7069 as it looked roughly 433 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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apart
IC 1383Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 1391Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 1371Elliptical29 million ly
apart
IC 5090Spiral31 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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