NGC 126

NGC 126

NGC 126 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 195 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 40,000 ly, about 40% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,252 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
195 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
4,252 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 195 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 126 as it looked roughly 195 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 127Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
IC 17Elliptical7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 170Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 128Lenticular9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 193Elliptical9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 130Elliptical10 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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