NGC 69

NGC 69

NGC 69 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda about 311 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 54,000 ly, about 54% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,754 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
311 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
6,754 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 311 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 69 as it looked roughly 311 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 71Elliptical710,000 ly
apart
NGC 72AElliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 72Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 67Galaxy19 million ly
apart
NGC 140Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 27Barred spiral19 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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