NGC 75

NGC 75

NGC 75 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 269 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 269 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
269 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 269 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 75 as it looked roughly 269 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 13Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 36Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 7824Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 95Spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 7Lenticular27 million ly
apart
NGC 7818Spiral27 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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