NGC 7306

NGC 7306

NGC 7306 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 166 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 87,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,566 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
166 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
3,566 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 166 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7306 as it looked roughly 166 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 7267Barred spiral20 million ly
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NGC 7277Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 7392Barred spiral28 million ly
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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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