NGC 7206

NGC 7206

NGC 7206 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 441 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 441 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
441 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
153k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 441 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7206 as it looked roughly 441 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
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apart
IC 5160Lenticular50 million ly
apart
NGC 7272Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
NGC 7190Lenticular50 million ly
apart
IC 1394Elliptical57 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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