NGC 7392

NGC 7392

NGC 7392 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius about 148 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 97,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,908 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,908 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7392 as it looked roughly 148 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 5261Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 7365Elliptical6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7377Lenticular9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 7359Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 7450Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 7444Lenticular21 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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