NGC 7125

NGC 7125

NGC 7125 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 140 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,080 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
3,080 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7125 as it looked roughly 140 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 7126Spiral530,000 ly
apart
NGC 7096Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7179Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7083Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7191Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7192Elliptical11 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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