NGC 7314

NGC 7314

NGC 7314 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 67 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 82,000 ly, about 82% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,786 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
1,786 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7314 as it looked roughly 67 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 7361Spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7180Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7513Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7507Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 7418Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 5273Barred spiral15 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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