NGC 7339

NGC 7339

NGC 7339 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 63 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,256 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
1,256 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7339 as it looked roughly 63 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 7332Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7241Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED02Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7177Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1420 NED01Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7625Spiral19 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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