NGC 7154

NGC 7154

NGC 7154 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,636 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Irregular
type · I
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
2,636 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7154 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
NGC 7135Elliptical2.5 million ly
apart
IC 5131Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7187Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
IC 5156Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7172Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7173Elliptical7.9 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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