NGC 7203

NGC 7203

NGC 7203 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 191 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 60,000 ly, about 60% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,061 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
191 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
4,061 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 191 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7203 as it looked roughly 191 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.

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apart
NGC 7277Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7201Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 7258Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 5157Elliptical21 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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