NGC 7096

NGC 7096

NGC 7096 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 143 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,928 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,928 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7096 as it looked roughly 143 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 7083Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
IC 5096Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7191Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
IC 5154Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7020Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7125Spiral8.8 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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