NGC 7359

NGC 7359

NGC 7359 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 156 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,351 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
156 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
3,351 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 156 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7359 as it looked roughly 156 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 7377Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7392Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 5261Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7306Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7365Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 7267Barred spiral30 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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