NGC 295

NGC 295

NGC 295 is a galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 216 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 37,000 ly, about 37% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,477 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Galaxy
morphology
216 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
5,477 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 216 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 295 as it looked roughly 216 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
IC 1618Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 338Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
IC 1619Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 266Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
IC 66Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 392Elliptical9.3 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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