NGC 750

NGC 750

NGC 750 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum about 245 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,222 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
245 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
5,222 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 245 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 750 as it looked roughly 245 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 789Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 783Spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 751Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
IC 171Lenticular9.9 million ly
apart
IC 200Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 798Elliptical12 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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