NGC 200

NGC 200

NGC 200 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 240 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,140 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
5,140 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 200 as it looked roughly 240 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 194Elliptical1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 208Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 182Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 203Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 198Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
IC 40Barred spiral13 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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