NGC 2073

NGC 2073

NGC 2073 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 141 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2073 as it looked roughly 141 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 2143Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2124Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
IC 438Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 2151Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 1993Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 2089Elliptical14 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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