NGC 907

NGC 907

NGC 907 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 77 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 50,000 ly, about 50% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,600 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBd
77 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,600 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 77 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 907 as it looked roughly 77 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 223Irregular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 899Irregular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 908Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 814Lenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 1034Irregular12 million ly
apart
NGC 723Barred spiral12 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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