NGC 7153

NGC 7153

NGC 7153 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 327 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 7,003 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
182k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
7,003 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7153 as it looked roughly 327 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 7214Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 7152Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 7262Lenticular71 million ly
apart
IC 1389Lenticular72 million ly
apart
IC 5086Elliptical72 million ly
apart
IC 5210Elliptical72 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).

← all galaxies