NGC 7408

NGC 7408

NGC 7408 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana about 164 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,443 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
164 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
3,443 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 164 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7408 as it looked roughly 164 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 5244Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apart
IC 5247Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
IC 5227Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 7358Lenticular9.9 million ly
apart
IC 5245Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 5272Spiral14 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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