NGC 7135

NGC 7135

NGC 7135 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,050 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
2,050 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7135 as it looked roughly 122 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
IC 5131Elliptical1,000,000 ly
apart
NGC 7154Irregular2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7187Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7091Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 5156Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7172Spiral8.5 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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