NGC 7316

NGC 7316

NGC 7316 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 258 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 89,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,577 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
5,577 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7316 as it looked roughly 258 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 7323Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
IC 5282Spiral35 million ly
apart
NGC 7553Elliptical44 million ly
apart
NGC 7547Spiral44 million ly
apart
NGC 7550Elliptical44 million ly
apart
NGC 7516Lenticular45 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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