NGC 7253A

NGC 7253A

NGC 7253A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 219 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,686 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
4,686 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7253A as it looked roughly 219 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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NGC 7253BSpiral6.8 million ly
apart
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apart
NGC 7273Lenticular31 million ly
apart
NGC 7265Elliptical32 million ly
apart
IC 1441Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
NGC 7282Barred spiral42 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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