NGC 714

NGC 714

NGC 714 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 202 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,458 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
4,458 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 714 as it looked roughly 202 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 705Lenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 688Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 668Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 179Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 736Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 700Lenticular12 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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