NGC 6875

NGC 6875

NGC 6875 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Telescopium about 145 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,129 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
145 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
3,129 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 145 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6875 as it looked roughly 145 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 6875ABarred spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6893Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 6851Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6861FBarred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 6902BSpiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 4946Lenticular12 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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