NGC 195

NGC 195

NGC 195 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 228 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 81,000 ly, about 81% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,918 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
4,918 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 195 as it looked roughly 228 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 273Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 16Lenticular19 million ly
apart
NGC 321Elliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 341Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 277Elliptical29 million ly
apart
NGC 345Spiral30 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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