NGC 105

NGC 105

NGC 105 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 241 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,290 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
241 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
5,290 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 241 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 105 as it looked roughly 241 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 137Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 99Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 7Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 95Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 34Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 180Spiral23 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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