NGC 7541

NGC 7541

NGC 7541 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 132 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,669 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,669 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7541 as it looked roughly 132 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 7537Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 7667Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 7714Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 7715Irregular14 million ly
apart
NGC 7716Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 7731Barred spiral19 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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