NGC 7361

NGC 7361

NGC 7361 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Piscis Austrinus about 58 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,174 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,174 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7361 as it looked roughly 58 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 5273Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7314Spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7456Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7418Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7462Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7513Barred spiral17 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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