NGC 375

NGC 375

NGC 375 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 273 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 38,000 ly, about 38% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,011 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
273 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
6,011 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 273 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 375 as it looked roughly 273 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.

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NGC 431Lenticular11 million ly
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IC 1636Lenticular11 million ly
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NGC 379Lenticular13 million ly
apart
IC 1668Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 407Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 386Elliptical14 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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