NGC 7371

NGC 7371

NGC 7371 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 77,000 ly, about 77% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,384 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,384 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7371 as it looked roughly 126 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 7378Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 7302Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 7416Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 1445Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 7444Lenticular19 million ly
apart
IC 1447Barred 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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