NGC 7184

NGC 7184

NGC 7184 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 210,000 ly, about 2.1 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,747 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
212k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
2,747 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7184 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 7183Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
IC 1438Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7167Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7254Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7247Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 1445Elliptical14 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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