NGC 276

NGC 276

NGC 276 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 645 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 210,000 ly, about 2.1 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 13,846 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
645 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
206k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
13,846 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 645 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 276 as it looked roughly 645 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 417Elliptical80 million ly
apart
IC 86Lenticular92 million ly
apart
IC 1600Barred spiral99 million ly
apart
IC 79Elliptical100 million ly
apart
IC 82Lenticular110 million ly
apart
NGC 377Barred spiral110 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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