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
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.
apartIC 86Lenticular92 million ly
apartIC 1600Barred spiral99 million ly
apartIC 79Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 82Lenticular110 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral110 million ly
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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).