NGC 895

NGC 895

NGC 895 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 107 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,344 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,344 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 895 as it looked roughly 107 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 215Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
IC 210Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 1015Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 811Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 1076Lenticular21 million ly
apart
IC 217Spiral21 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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