NGC 7391

NGC 7391

NGC 7391 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 142 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,045 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
3,045 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7391 as it looked roughly 142 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 7428Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7416Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7460Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1447Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7537Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 7541Barred spiral23 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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