NGC 95

NGC 95

NGC 95 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 252 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,886 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
252 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
4,886 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 252 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 95 as it looked roughly 252 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 7Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 137Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 105Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 34Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 13Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 180Spiral19 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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