NGC 7365

NGC 7365

NGC 7365 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 143 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,081 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,081 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7365 as it looked roughly 143 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 7392Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
IC 5261Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 7377Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 7359Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 7444Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 7254Barred spiral21 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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