NGC 7349

NGC 7349

NGC 7349 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 213 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,639 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
213 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,639 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 213 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7349 as it looked roughly 213 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 7341Spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7381Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7285Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7284Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 7252Lenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 1443Elliptical26 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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