NGC 75
NGC 75
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
apartNGC 36Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7824Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 95Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7818Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 36Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 7824Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 95Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 7Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 7818Spiral27 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).