NGC 1203A

NGC 1203A

NGC 1203A is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 442 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 442 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1203A as it looked roughly 442 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
NGC 1180Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1181Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 1191Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1192Elliptical13 million ly
apart
IC 299Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 1263Lenticular20 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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