NGC 7310

NGC 7310

NGC 7310 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 454 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,686 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
454 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
9,686 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 454 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7310 as it looked roughly 454 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 7157Spiral84 million ly
apart
NGC 7268 NED01Lenticular84 million ly
apart
NGC 7104Elliptical99 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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