NGC 1075

NGC 1075

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1075 as it looked roughly 365 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 1074Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 1105Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 1099Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1100Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 254Galaxy14 million ly
apart
NGC 1089Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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