NGC 7267

NGC 7267

NGC 7267 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 160 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,346 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
3,346 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7267 as it looked roughly 160 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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apart
NGC 7258Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 7277Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7359Lenticular30 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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