NGC 7156

NGC 7156

NGC 7156 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 186 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 3,954 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
3,954 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7156 as it looked roughly 186 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.

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apart
IC 1368Spiral33 million ly
apart
IC 1367Galaxy33 million ly
apart
NGC 7046Spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 1364Elliptical34 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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