NGC 7145

NGC 7145

NGC 7145 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Grus about 88 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,891 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
88 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
1,891 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 88 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7145 as it looked roughly 88 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 7155Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7144Elliptical3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7151Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7233Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7232Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7213Spiral7.3 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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