NGC 7183

NGC 7183

NGC 7183 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 123 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,577 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
123 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
2,577 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 123 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7183 as it looked roughly 123 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 7184Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
IC 1438Spiral8.9 million ly
apart
IC 1445Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 7167Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7254Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7171Barred spiral13 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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