NGC 7329

NGC 7329

NGC 7329 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 153 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,159 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
3,159 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7329 as it looked roughly 153 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
IC 5245Lenticular3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7358Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
IC 5250BLenticular5.2 million ly
apart
IC 5222Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
IC 5246Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
IC 5272Spiral6.7 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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