NGC 7185

NGC 7185

NGC 7185 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 85 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,838 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,838 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7185 as it looked roughly 85 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 7188Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7218Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7259Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7180Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 7314Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 5078Spiral26 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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