NGC 7205A

NGC 7205A

NGC 7205A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus about 337 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,127 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
337 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
7,127 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 337 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7205A as it looked roughly 337 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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IC 5238Spiral45 million ly
apart
IC 5190Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
IC 5037Spiral64 million ly
apart
IC 5033Spiral66 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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