NGC 7201

NGC 7201

NGC 7201 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 210 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,427 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
210 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,427 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 210 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7201 as it looked roughly 210 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 7221Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7229Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 5157Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 7203Lenticular18 million ly
apart
IC 5168Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 7130Spiral25 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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