NGC 15
NGC 15 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 294 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 294 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 294 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 15 as it looked roughly 294 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.
apartNGC 42Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 81Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 96Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 41Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1541Lenticular22 million ly
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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).