NGC 7364

NGC 7364

NGC 7364 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 226 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,906 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
226 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
4,906 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 226 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7364 as it looked roughly 226 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 7396Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 7401Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 1455Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 7397Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 7398Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7402Lenticular14 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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