NGC 2076
NGC 2076
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2076 as it looked roughly 100 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 441Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2106Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 2212Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2211Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2196Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 2152Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2106Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 2212Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2211Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2196Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 2152Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
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).