NGC 7229

NGC 7229

NGC 7229 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 201 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,236 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
4,236 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7229 as it looked roughly 201 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 spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7201Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7203Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 7277Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 7285Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 5157Elliptical22 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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