NGC 7187

NGC 7187

NGC 7187 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 124 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 42,000 ly, about 42% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,670 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
124 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,670 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 124 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7187 as it looked roughly 124 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 7173Elliptical2.6 million ly
apart
IC 5156Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7172Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7204BLenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7204ABarred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7154Irregular5.8 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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