NGC 1713

NGC 1713

NGC 1713 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Orion about 209 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 81,000 ly, about 81% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,514 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
209 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
4,514 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 209 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1713 as it looked roughly 209 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 1709Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1685Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1684Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 1682Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 1670Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 1654Barred spiral14 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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