NGC 7083

NGC 7083

NGC 7083 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 145 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,059 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
145 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
3,059 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 145 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7083 as it looked roughly 145 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 7096Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
IC 5096Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
IC 5084Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7020Lenticular7.9 million ly
apart
IC 5092Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
IC 5154Spiral9.5 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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