NGC 7357

NGC 7357

NGC 7357 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 335 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 335 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
335 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 335 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7357 as it looked roughly 335 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 7356Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7343Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 7319Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 5233Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 7473Lenticular29 million ly
apart
NGC 7435Barred spiral31 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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