NGC 7124

NGC 7124

NGC 7124 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 243 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,139 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
243 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
5,139 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 243 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7124 as it looked roughly 243 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 7118Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 5125Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 7117Elliptical20 million ly
apart
NGC 7038Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7072ASpiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 7014Elliptical35 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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