NGC 25

NGC 25

NGC 25 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Phoenix about 447 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 9,429 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
9,429 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 25 as it looked roughly 447 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 31Spiral1,000,000 ly
apart
NGC 28Elliptical2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 37Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 7652Spiral53 million ly
apart
NGC 159Lenticular57 million ly
apart
NGC 212Elliptical66 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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