NGC 7358

NGC 7358

NGC 7358 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 155 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,347 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,347 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7358 as it looked roughly 155 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
IC 5245Lenticular2.0 million ly
apart
IC 5247Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
IC 5227Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7329Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
IC 5250BLenticular5.3 million ly
apart
IC 5272Spiral6.1 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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