NGC 150

NGC 150

NGC 150 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor about 73 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,523 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
1,523 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 150 as it looked roughly 73 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
IC 1555Spiral3.1 million ly
apart
IC 1558Spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 254Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 134Spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 289Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 148Lenticular7.4 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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