NGC 1175

NGC 1175

NGC 1175 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus about 257 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,540 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
5,540 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1175 as it looked roughly 257 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 1177Elliptical2.8 million ly
apart
IC 300Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 265Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 262Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 1131Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 310Lenticular13 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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