NGC 7265

NGC 7265

NGC 7265 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lacerta about 236 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,910 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
170k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
4,910 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7265 as it looked roughly 236 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 7273Lenticular2.4 million ly
apart
IC 1441Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7330Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 5193Elliptical28 million ly
apart
NGC 7223Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7282Barred spiral29 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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