NGC 193

NGC 193

NGC 193 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 199 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,327 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
4,327 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 193 as it looked roughly 199 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 170Elliptical5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 173Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 197Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 196Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 192Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 126Lenticular9.7 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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