NGC 2713

NGC 2713

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2713 as it looked roughly 181 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 2426Lenticular960,000 ly
apart
NGC 2729Lenticular5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2723Lenticular8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2765Lenticular9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2718Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2716Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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