NGC 7225

NGC 7225

NGC 7225 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,895 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
4,895 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7225 as it looked roughly 228 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
IC 5168Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7252Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 7284Lenticular18 million ly
apart
IC 1443Elliptical22 million ly
apart
IC 5178Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 7220Lenticular24 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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