NGC 113

NGC 113

NGC 113 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 203 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 72,000 ly, about 72% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 203 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 113 as it looked roughly 203 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.

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NGC 124Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 120Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 145Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 192Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 201Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 197Lenticular17 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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