NGC 7253B

NGC 7253B

NGC 7253B is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 226 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 84,000 ly, about 84% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,496 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
226 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,496 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 226 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7253B as it looked roughly 226 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 7253ASpiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7273Lenticular29 million ly
apart
NGC 7265Elliptical29 million ly
apart
NGC 7264Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
IC 1441Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
NGC 7080Barred spiral44 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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