NGC 7348

NGC 7348

NGC 7348 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 344 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,311 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
344 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
7,311 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 344 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7348 as it looked roughly 344 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 7374BElliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7386Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 7374Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 7390Galaxy23 million ly
apart
NGC 7362Elliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 7305Elliptical24 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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