NGC 151

NGC 151

NGC 151 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 175 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,654 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
175 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
191k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
3,654 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 175 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 151 as it looked roughly 175 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 217Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 270Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 187Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 207Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 41Galaxy19 million ly
apart
NGC 239Spiral20 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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