NGC 7075

NGC 7075

NGC 7075 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Grus about 254 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,444 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
254 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
5,444 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 254 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7075 as it looked roughly 254 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 5105Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 7087Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7109Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 7110Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 7057Elliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 7072ASpiral27 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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