NGC 7174

NGC 7174

NGC 7174 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 130 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,777 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
2,777 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7174 as it looked roughly 130 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 7163Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7173Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
IC 5156Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7187Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7204ABarred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7204BLenticular9.4 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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