NGC 7337

NGC 7337

NGC 7337 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 307 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,900 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
307 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
6,900 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 307 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7337 as it looked roughly 307 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 7317Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 7369Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7340Elliptical9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7335Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 7319Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7315Lenticular13 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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