NGC 7192

NGC 7192

NGC 7192 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Indus about 135 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 95,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,897 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
2,897 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7192 as it looked roughly 135 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 7199Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7179Barred spiral2.2 million ly
apart
IC 5182Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 7219Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7191Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7096Spiral11 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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