NGC 7330

NGC 7330

NGC 7330 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lacerta about 245 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,311 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
5,311 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7330 as it looked roughly 245 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 7379Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7265Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 7273Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 7426Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 1441Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7445Lenticular19 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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