NGC 2089

NGC 2089

NGC 2089 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 133 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about 85% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 133 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
133 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 133 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2089 as it looked roughly 133 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 2124Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 2143Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2073Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 438Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 2179Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 1906Spiral15 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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